Wednesday, 15 August 2012
‘While we have all been quite concerned, even obsessed, by ebooks, very few of us have websites that can effectively sell “pbooks”’—Suzy Wilson on the launch of Riverbend Books’ new...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
The winners of the 2012 Australian Education Publishing Awards, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), will be announced at an event in Melbourne on 6 September. The awards presentation,...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Bookstores around Australia celebrated the second annual National Bookshop Day on Saturday 11 August, gaining increased sales, media coverage and community support, and creating a festive atmosphere. Australian Booksellers Association (ABA)...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Book-related events over the coming fortnight include: Romance Writers of Australia National Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, 16-19 August CBCA Book Week: 18-24 August Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children’s Writers and Illustrators, New Zealand, 18-26...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Riverbend Books has launched a new website, featuring live inventory information alongside other title information. Riverbend Books owner Suzy Wilson told Bookseller+Publisher that updating the website was a necessary step...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Scholastic has announced that sales at the company rose 14% for the year ending 31 May, rising to US$2.15 billion (A$2.04 billion) from US$1.89 billion (A$1.79 billion) in 2011. Scholastic said...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Oxford University Press has reported a 10% growth in sales for the financial year ending 31 March. Sales for the year were £695.5 million (A$1.04 billion), up from £648.6 million...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced changes to its council. Karen Ferns has stepped down from the PANZ council due to the demands of her new role...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Collecting Cooper (Paul Cleave, S&S) Luther: The Calling (Neil Cross,...

Monday, 13 August 2012
Sales Fiction—UWA Publishing has sold Indian rights to The Walls of Delhi (Uday Prakash, translated by Jason Grunebaum). Nonfiction—Murdoch Books has sold North American, Dutch, French, German, Swedish, Polish and...

Monday, 13 August 2012
QF32 (Richard De Crespigny, Macmillan), in which Flight Captain Richard De Crespigny narrates the true story of a near-fatal flight from Singapore to Sydney in November 2010, is third on the fastest-movers chart and...

Monday, 13 August 2012
Helen Gurley Brown, former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and the author of Sex and the Single Girl (1962), among other books, has died aged 90.

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
‘One of the only commonalities among the people I met who work specifically on digital projects is that, five years ago, they couldn’t have imagined what they are doing now....

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Former Penguin editor Jane Morrow has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into digital developments in US publishing, following placements with Penguin in New York, Chronicle Books in San...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
A number of Australian authors have been nominated for this year’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize, run by the Guardian in the UK. The prize has the same criteria as the...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Collins Booksellers Shepparton in regional Victoria was named Franchise of the Year at this year’s Collins Booksellers national conference, held between 5 and 7 August in Byron Bay. Franchisees Joe...