The 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)... Read more
A PwC report, commissioned for the Productivity Commission’s intellectual property review, has advised against changing Australian copyright law to the US-style ‘fair use’ approach, reports the Australian Financial Review. The... Read more
Literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) will publish Melbourne-based writer and TLB contributor Briohny Doyle’s debut novel in August 2016 as the magazine expands its scope to include book publishing. Doyle’s as-yet-untitled novel... Read more
Pantera Press has signed its first international rights deal with the sale of North American rights to the first seven books in Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ series and J M... Read more
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) is proposing to close its distribution centre in Rugby, potentially resulting in 255 job losses, reports the Bookseller. PRH said the move was... Read more