Hardie Grant appoints Senogles in new US marketing role
Hardie Grant Publishing has appointed Renee Senogles in the newly created role of US marketing and publicity manager for Hardie Grant and Quadrille. Hardie Grant marketing director Roxy Ryan told...
Billie’s new adventure: Sally Rippin on writing picture books
Sally Rippin’s latest two picture books, Billie’s Great Desert Adventure and Billie’s Underwater Adventure (illus by Alisa Coburn, Hardie Grant Egmont) will ‘stir the imagination in all sorts of colourful...
Text, Hardie Grant nominated for 2014 FutureBook Innovation Awards
Text Publishing and Hardie Grant Publishing have been shortlisted for the Bookseller’s Futurebook Innovation Awards for 2014.Text’s website is in the running for best publisher website and Hardie Grant Publishing’s...
Hardie Grant launches recipe subscription website Cooked
Hardie Grant Books has launched a recipe subscription website called Cooked, which draws on content from the publisher’s cookbooks and allows members to create their own recipe collections to share...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Hardie Grant launches free newspaper
Hardie Grant Books has launched a free newspaper-style publication that features book extracts and author interviews, called First Pages. The first edition of First Pages was distributed to cafes in Melbourne...
Hardie Grant stationery competition winner announced
Hardie Grant has announced that Cate Furey is the winner of its first stationery design competition. Furey’s design features vintage illustrations with the words ‘love’, ‘note’, ‘make’ and ‘word’. The...
Hardie Grant stationery competition finalists announced
Hardie Grant has announced the finalists in its stationery competition. As reported by Books+Publishing, the publisher called for designers, illustrators and artists to submit a concept for three stationery pieces—a...
Hardie Grant launches stationery competition
Hardie Grant has launched an annual stationery competition. On its Facebook page Hardie Grant is calling for designers, illustrators and artists to submit a concept for three stationery pieces—a journal...
Diary of a sales rep: Mandy Wildsmith
Hardie Grant Books sales rep Mandy Wildsmith has spent 18 years on the road in Victoria and Tasmania. She shares five days from her diary. MONDAY The alarm screams although...
Changes at Hardie Grant Publishing
Ian Webster will step down from his role as managing director of Universal Publishers in September, but will continue his involvement with Hardie Grant Publishing as a non-executive director. Astrid...
Hardie Grant combines Explore Australia, Universal Publishers in new division; Browne to replace Webster
Hardie Grant Publishing (HGP) has announced that its Expore Australia and Universal Publishers businesses will now operate under a new division called Hardie Grant Explore (HGEx). The publisher also announced that...
OZ, NZ books nominated for 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Australian books have featured heavily in the wine and drinks categories of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Hardie Grant Australia has been named Best Wine Books Publisher of the...
In Brief
New Brisbane bookstoreA new bookstore opened in Brisbane's South Bank in August. Scrumptious Reads is a temporary installation shop that sells food and drink titles as well as homewares. The...
Thames & Hudson announces price changes
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced this week that it will introduce 'significant changes to the pricing of all imported books'. The publisher said in a statement that 'the changes...
Murray apologises to Neill for book allegations
Author Les Murray has apologised to Socceroos captain Lucas Neill for allegations about Neill's leadership which appear in Murray's new book. Reprints of Murray's The World Game: The Story of...
2011 ABA Conference: Guest speakers announced; early registrations available this week
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the guest speakers for its conference and trade exhibition this year, entitled 'Through the Looking Glass', ahead of early-bird registrations which will open by...
Hardie Grant Egmont announces price initiatives to support booksellers
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced a number of initiatives this week designed to support booksellers by addressing price concerns. The publisher said in a statement today that it has introduced...
Simon & Schuster revise prices
Simon & Schuster is the latest publishing house to announce a revision of its Australian pricing schedules. Simon & Schuster managing director Lou Johnson told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the publisher...
Capacity crowds at 2011 Writers at the Convent
The Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival has continued to increase its year-on-year audience numbers, with audience numbers for the 2011 festival up on 2010 figures. Festival founder and...