Thursday, 15 November 2012
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) is predicting that Christmas sales in the retail sector will increase 3.9% on the same period last year. The association predicts retail consumers will spend...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Small Press Network, the rebranded Small Press Underground Networking Community, is already planning for the 2013 Independent Publishers Conference following a successful inaugural event in Melbourne last week.  General manager...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Co-op Bookshop has confirmed that it has acquired the Edith Cowan University bookshops. ‘We’re absolutely delighted to soon have a presence at Edith Cowan University and we look forward...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Matilda’s Books in Mount Waverley, Victoria, is due to close in a few months time, after 22 years. Julie McInnes, who has owned the bookstore for five years, announced the...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Author and academic Emmett Stinson announced that he will be editor of a new format of The Journal of Publishing during the Small Press Network Independent Publishers Conference. Stinson said...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
SPUNC (the Small Press Underground Networking Community) has announced it will rebrand to Small Press Network. General manager Zoe Dattner told Bookseller+Publisher the rebrand was something the organisation had been...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Simon & Schuster has announced several staff changes.  Kate Cubitt has been promoted to sales director with ‘overall responsibility for ANZ sales strategy and strategic management of all product’ including...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Peter Kirby has retired from the Constant Reader bookshop after 33 years.  Kirby has sold the business, located in Crows Nest, New South Wales, to store manager Jay Lansdown, who...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has moved into new offices.  The publisher, which was formerly housed, along with the literary journal Meanjin, in Grattan Street, Carlton, in Melbourne, has moved ‘up...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Independent Distribution Solutions (IDS), a distribution arm of Christian book and music distributor CMCA, finished trading at the beginning of this year. Former IDS director and CMCA board member John...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Thorpe-Bowker has officially launched the My Identifiers platform in Australia, replacing the Australian ISBN Agency. Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly launched the platform at the inaugural Independent Publishers Conference in Melbourne...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
A new online literary journal will be launched in early December. The Sydney Review of Books (SRB), modeled on the London Review of Books and the New York Review of...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Sales Fiction—Scholastic has finalised a US deal for The Very Hungry Bear (Nick Bland); and has licensed Korean language rights to My Dad’s The Coolest (Rosie Smith & Bruce Whatley) and...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
In The Golden Land (Macmillan), Di Morrissey explores the troubled history of Burma through a contemporary story about a young Gold Coast mother whose interest in the country is ignited...

Monday, 12 November 2012
The Perth Writers Festival (PWF) has announced the writers appearing at the festival, running from 21-24 February at the Crawley campus of the University of Western Australia. Margaret Atwood will...

Monday, 12 November 2012
Anne O’Brien has been appointed as festival director of Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (AWRF) beginning 1 January.  O’Brien has worked as artistic director at AWRF since December 2011 and...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has told Bookseller+Publisher that it is ‘aware’ of the proposed merger between Penguin and Random House. An ACCC spokesperson said that ‘if the...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
‘Global English-language rights will become more and more prevalent, as will simultaneous worldwide publishing. Where this leaves author tours, writers festivals and associated marketing, which until now has been staggered...