Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Phaidon Press has announced it has been acquired ‘from Richard Schlagman by the Leon D Black family’, but has not revealed terms of the acquisition. Schlagman, who acquired the publisher...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
From 2013, the public will be able to vote for any New Zealand book published within the eligible timeframe for the NZ Post Book Awards people’s choice award. Previously, the...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
HarperCollins has announced that it will roll out a new global publishing software system in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand during the next financial year. The new...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Mary Sangster of the Children’s Bookshop Christchurch has been elected chair of the board of Booksellers NZ, replacing Hamish Wright of Wright’s Bookshop, who has completed his four-year term as...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
‘The main reason we wanted to try it was essentially to see what would happen—an experiment’—Momentum publisher Joel Naoum in the Sydney Morning Herald, explaining why the Pan Macmillan imprint...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Apple has removed Krissy Kneen’s erotic fiction novel Triptych (Text) from the iBookstore. Kneen told Bookseller+Publisher that Text received an email from iBookstore Publisher Support informing the publisher that the book 'has been ticketed for having...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Exisle Publishing owner Benny St John Thomas has stepped down as sales and marketing director to focus on the publisher’s rights sales, taking on the role of rights director in...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
UK-based secondhand bookseller World of Books has launched an Australian website. World of Books Australia officially launched on 22 October. The business sources secondhand books from charities in the UK...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Melbourne’s Hill of Content Bookshop celebrated its 90th birthday on 18 October with a reception for staff, customers and friends. The Bourke Street bookshop was established by A H Spencer...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Apple has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that titles from Harlequin, HarperCollins and Hachette New Zealand are now available on the Apple iBookstore in New Zealand. It has been widely reported today...

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Paul Kurtz, US philosopher and founder of Prometheus Books, has died aged 86. Kurtz wrote over 50 books and was publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines. He edited two large...

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Acquisitions Fiction—Viking has acquired world rights, excluding translation rights in France and Germany, to The Separation (Dinah Jefferies) through Caroline Hardman at Hardman Swainson. Simon & Schuster has acquired The...

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
In A Touch of Crimson (Sylvia Day, Hachette), Adrian Mitchell is an angel leading an elite Special Ops unit tasked with punishing the ‘Fallen’, while also living through his own...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
In a two-week long coordinated promotion, readers of the Australian newspaper will be given the opportunity to download 12 HarperCollins ebooks titles for free through Kobo and Collins Booksellers. The...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair ended on Sunday 14 October with organisers reporting 281,753 visitors over the five days of the fair, which featured...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF), which ran from 3-7 October in the mountain village of Ubud in Bali, Indonesia, has reported its ‘largest and most ambitious program yet’, with the...