Please note that, due to the Queen’s Birthday holiday on Monday (in all states except Queensland and Western Australia), the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on... Read more

The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced it will join the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and other organisations to support the Books Create Australia campaign,... Read more

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has pledged to ‘carefully consult on copyright’, close the Catalyst —Australian Arts and Culture Fund and return funding to the... Read more

The 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The three shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for an established Australian... Read more

Sydney-based independent publisher Xoum Publishing has appointed Alice Grundy in the newly created role of associate publisher, where she will head its new literary imprint... Read more

Independent small press Sleepers Publishing has announced it will not take on new books after 13 years of operation. In a newsletter, Sleepers co-founders Zoe... Read more

Australian authors Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge have won the Cricket Book of the Year award at the UK Cross Sports Book Awards, for Chasing... Read more

The finalists for this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Young adult... Read more

An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has been named a finalist in the British Fantasy Awards. Letters to Tiptree, which is edited... Read more

The Mudgee Readers’ Festival in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2016 festival, to be held from 13-14 August. Festival guests include Jane... Read more

Oxford University Press (OUP) will recruit a number of booksellers to act as distributors to other customers in a bid to increase the reach of... Read more

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) marketing and publicity manager Terri King is leaving the company after 10 years. King told Books+Publishing she will be joining forces with former... Read more

Independent website Author Earnings has expanded the scope of its latest quarterly report on Amazon print, audio and ebook sales to take into account titles... Read more

US website Literary Hub has launched a new section of its site that aggregates book reviews from over 70 sources, called Book Marks. Pitched by... Read more

In the US, HarperCollins has announced the launch of its daily Facebook Live program, which will see authors broadcast live videos to readers and take... Read more

The Israeli government has repealed legislation in force since 2014 that prohibits discounts on new books in the first 18 months of publication, reports Israel... Read more

Parashar Kulkarni has become the first Indian writer to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘Cow and Company’. The £5000 (A$9586) prize... Read more

The Bookseller’s 2016 YA Book Prize has been awarded to free-verse novel One by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury). Crossnan’s winning novel is about ‘conjoined twins Grace and... Read more

Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia (David Hunt) to Audible. Children—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold... Read more

Four new releases have entered the top 10 bestsellers, with this week’s highest new entry Slow Cooker Central 2 (Pauline Christie, ABC Books) debuting in... Read more

‘A good subject is important, and Brett Whiteley was a genius who occupied a unique place in Australian culture. He was creative, selfish and, in... Read more

‘It’s a dire time for the arts in Australia. It’s not just the cuts in funding, it’s the way that artists are made, in an abundance of casual ways, to feel like hobbyists’—Sleepers co-founders Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn announce that Sleepers will not be taking on new books after 13 years of operation

Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in July and August 2016. Author Chris Owen and illustrator Chris Nixon’s picture book Pandamonia... Read more

The National Library of Australia (NLA) and all Australian state libraries will no longer have online access to Australian Standards publications after unsuccessful negotiations between... Read more

The administrator for Armidale Regional Council in rural NSW has put plans for a $11m war memorial library first floated in 2012 ‘back on the... Read more

An autonomous shelf-scanning robot is being developed by the Institute for Infocomm Research at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, reports Cnet. Using laser-mapping... Read more

Books on leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation are attracting new readers to the business books category, while a strong backlist remains essential to sales, writes Andrea... Read more

Established in 2013, Melbourne-based Inkerman & Blunt publishes poetry, prose and nonfiction of ‘originality, intelligence and beauty’. According to founder Donna Ward, ‘high-quality production values,... Read more

Former Giramondo managing editor Alice Grundy has joined Xoum in the newly created role of associate publisher. (See news.)

Melbourne University Publishing marketing and publicity manager Terri King has left the publisher to form a PR agency. (See news.)

We’re excited to inform you that Lonely Planet’s Melbourne Distribution Centre will be relocating into a much larger new custom fit facility in Bentleigh, Victoria over the coming June long weekend.

All returns will need to be sent to our new Bentleigh DC from Thursday June 9, 2016.

Lonely Planet Distribution Centre
16-20 Clairmont Ave
Bentleigh
Victoria, 3204

Please note that returns can only be sent to the Lonely Planet DC in Bentleigh. Returns cannot be received at our Carlton location.

Happy Travels.

Ford Street is moving its sales and distribution for Australia and New Zealand from Pan Macmillan Australia to NewSouth Books from September 1st 2016. Alliance Distribution Services will authorise returns for titles within trading terms until August 31st 2016. Authorised returns must be received by ADS no later than October 31st 2016 for credit. NewSouth Books will not accept returns for titles invoiced by ADS.

Please direct orders to TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au.

Rockpool Publishing celebrates 10 years’ publishing on 1 July 2016.Thank you to all booksellers and distributors for your support.

The anniversary coincides with the release of Healthy Liver, ISBN 978-1-925017-57-1, Dr Cris Beer is a Dry July Ambassador, National Publicity, Orders: customerservice@herronbooks.com Tel: 07 33998799.

Rockpool is pleased and excited to announce that Herron Book Distribution will take over distribution of our products into the Australian book trade immediately.

Orders to: Herron Books, 23 Archimedes Place, Murrarrie QLD 4172, Australia

Email: customerservice@herronbooks.com | Tel: 07 33998799.

Rockpool Publishing would like to thank The Five Mile Press.

Hardie Grant Egmont is thrilled to announce that Peter Helliar, co-host of The Project and beloved Australian comedian, actor and screenwriter, will be publishing his first ever children’s book next year.

Frankie Fish and the Worst Computer in the World, the first book in a new series written by Helliar for middle-grade readers, will be hitting shelves in March 2017.