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Ticket sales were steady at the 2017 Bryon Writers Festival, which ran from 4-6 August in Byron Bay, NSW, with overall attendance set to repeat... Read more |
Amazon has appointed Rocco Braeuniger as its country manager for Australia and has confirmed it will open its first Australian fulfilment centre in Dandenong South... Read more |
A new survey into New Zealanders’ reading habits has found that 88% of the adult population read, or started to read, at least one book... Read more |
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Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop is opening a store in Canberra on 31 October. The store is Robinsons’ 10th and its first outside of Melbourne.... Read more |
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A multilingual children’s bookstore, Lost in Books, has opened in Fairfield, South Western Sydney. Open from Monday to Friday, the bookstore also serves as a... Read more |
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The Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival has announced the first guests for its 2017 program, which runs from 14-17 September in Hobart. UK author A... Read more |
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Black Inc. has announced it will publish a new triannual journal, Australian Foreign Affairs, which will include essays, interviews, reportage, book reviews and correspondence. Australian... Read more |
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New children’s picture book publisher Little Pink Dog Books has released its first title, The World’s Worst Pirate by Michelle Worthington and illustrated by Katrin... Read more |
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New children’s publisher Dirt Lane Press has launched its first book The Sorry Tale of Fox and Bear, written by Margrete Lamond and illustrated by Heather... Read more |
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Young-adult literature advocacy group LoveOzYA is conducting a survey into the reading habits of YA readers, with the results to be released later this year.... Read more |
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The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is running its inaugural Young Writers Conference—a day of industry seminars and writing workshops for young writers aged 15... Read more |
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Readings has won the Store Fit-Out of the Year award at the 2017 Australian Retail Awards for the design of its Readings Doncaster and Readings... Read more |
Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, worth NZ$60,000 (A$55,900) each. Novelist Witi Ihimaera has been... Read more |
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The winners of this year’s Affirm Press Mentorship Award have been announced. The winning authors and their work are: ‘Inheritance’ by Kathryn O’Connor, a novel... Read more |
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Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of its 2017 Write-ability and Glenfern fellowships. Five emerging writers with disability were awarded Write-ability fellowships. They are: Mary... Read more |
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Writers Victoria has announced the 2017 winners of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The Grace Marion Wilson Prize in the fiction category was... Read more |
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The Sydney Review of Books has announced the shortlist for its 2017 Copyright Agency-SRB Emerging Critics fellowships. The shortlisted writers are: Shu-Ling Chua (ACT) Daniel... Read more |
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Penguin Random House will publish the autobiography of retiring AFL player Luke Hodge on 30 October. Luke Hodge: The General will ‘explain his own transformation’... Read more |
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Australia-based British author Cordelia Fine has been shortlisted for the 2017 Science Book Prize for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds (Icon... Read more |
Pearson will cut 3000 jobs by 2020 in an effort to save £300m (A$493m) a year, reports the Bookseller. CEO John Fallon announced the job... Read more |
Simon & Schuster UK has signed up to the Society of Authors’ (SoA) seven-point plan to ensure ‘special sales deals’ don’t affect writers’ earnings, reports... Read more |
The Quarto Group has received an unsolicited approach for sale from a third-party buyer, reports the Bookseller. Quarto said the board considers the price ‘attractive... Read more |
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Not the Booker Prize, which is run by the Guardian in the UK and voted on by... Read more |
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J K Rowling has taken out the top spot in Forbes’ annual list of the world’s top-earning authors, reports the Guardian. Rowling is estimated to... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose) to Lijiang Publishing Limited; and world Spanish rights... Read more |
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Crime is the dominant genre in this week’s bestsellers charts, with mystery, thriller and true crime books taking up five spots in the overall top... Read more |
‘There is much to appreciate in this brave adventure and warts-and-all romantic tale, not least Jobbins’ candour and gutsy self-analysis. The issues that arise are... Read more |
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 13 reviews of books publishing in October. Four books scored 4.5 stars from our reviewers, including three picture books: Danny Blue’s Really... Read more |
John Vallance has been appointed NSW State Library CEO and state librarian. Vallance has been headmaster of Sydney Grammar School for the past 17 years.... Read more |
Library patrons in regional Western Australia will be limited to two inter-library loan requests per month, while new-release titles will no longer be available under... Read more |
Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne is calling for early concept designs and a feasibility study on plans to develop the Footscray Library into a community and... Read more |
The illustrated books market is thriving thanks to a growth in aspirational lifestyle titles and a reappreciation of books as beautiful objects, reports Andrea Hanke.... Read more |
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Multi-platform blogger Tamsien West shares her eclectic reading tastes across her blog, Instagram, YouTube and book club under the name Babbling Books. She has found... Read more |
Entries are now open for The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) 2018 Crichton Award, closing date 30 November 2017. This award recognises and encourages... Read more |
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