Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Haylee Nash has been appointed to the newly created role of commissioning editor of fiction at Pan Macmillan. Nash, who begins in the role on 16 December, was publishing manager...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish a ‘small number’ of its children’s books directly into the UK from 2014. A&U children’s publicist Lara Wallace told Books+Publishing that...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Dying for a Chat: The Communication Breakdown between Doctors and Patients by Ranjana Srivastava (Penguin) has won this year’s Human Rights Literature Award. Dying for a Chat was selected from...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers.  This is your last chance to complete the survey online.  Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
B2Be, owner of ecommerce service PacStream, has announced that it will manage the service from January 2014. Pacstream is currently managed by Thorpe-Bowker, owner of Books+Publishing. B2Be said in a...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
‘Books pages are full of authors reviewing authors, almost always in the uncomfortable position of writing about someone they know and in many cases someone they like’—the Saturday Paper editor...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
The Women’s Bookshop in Auckland has been named the Penguin New Zealand Independent Bookseller of the Year for 2013. The Women’s Bookshop is owned by Carole Beu. In a statement published...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
The Saturday Paper, a weekly newspaper to be launched by Schwartz Publishing in the first quarter of 2014, will include book coverage with pseudonymous reviews. The identity of reviewers will...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2013. The first issue for 2014 will be published on 8 January. Any material submitted online or emailed...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Last day of business in 2013 First day of business in 2014 Allen & Unwin (Australia) Tuesday 24 December (closing 1.30pm) Thursday 2 January Allen & Unwin (New Zealand) Tuesday...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold UK rights to Prime Cut and Getting Warmer (Alan Carter); and German rights to Prime Cut. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold US rights to 20 x...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Tracy Strudley, sales and marketing director of New Zealand educational publishing company Global Education Systems, has been elected to the council of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Strudley...

Monday, 9 December 2013
There are no changes at the top of this week’s bestsellers chart, with Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) and Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) in first...

Friday, 6 December 2013
Scribe has announced the joint winners of its inaugural nonfiction prize for young writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The winning titles are: ‘I Don’t Know’ by Briohny Doyle ‘34 Memories from...

Thursday, 5 December 2013
Elissa Baillie will join Simon & Schuster Australia in January in the role of sales director. Baillie currently works for Penguin US, where she manages sales for the Penguin Young...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A new report from the National Australia Bank (NAB) has revealed that Australians spent $14.4 billion on online purchases in the year to October 2013, up $2 billion on the...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A number of Copia-powered online stores have been launched in the past few months. Some of the stores are ebooks-only, while others sell a mixture of print and ebooks. The...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
‘Back to 2009 levels—very exciting!’—A bookseller reports on their store’s Christmas sales to date in the Books+Publishing pre-Christmas survey. Booksellers and publishers, click here to complete the survey.

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Australian online news publication the New Daily, which was launched in November, is including coverage of books in its entertainment section. The New Daily entertainment editor Antonia Acott told Books+Publishing that the...