Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Australian chef Bill Granger is suing Murdoch Books ‘for misleading and deceptive conduct, infringement of copyright and infringement of moral rights’ in the Federal Court of Australia over the publication...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Book industry events over the following fortnight include: Bayside Literary Festival, Melbourne: 21 June to 15 July Children’s & Young Adult Literature Festival, Sydney: 30 June International Conference on the Book, Barcelona,...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The books in the ‘Fifty shades’ trilogy (E L James, Arrow Books) are still at the top of the bestsellers chart this week. The fourth and final book in the...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has announced initial details of its adult program for the 2012 festival. British actor, director and author of several biographies Simon Callow will give the...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Booksellers New Zealand has announced details of its annual conference. The Business of Bookselling Conference will take place from 1-2 August in Auckland and will include a trade show, conference...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Shaun Symonds, general manager of Nielsen BookScan Australia, presented recent Nielsen sales data at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Sunday 17 June. Symonds said the average selling price (ASP) of...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House has sold The Hanging Garden (Patrick White) to Slovenia; Dirty Money (Matthew Benns) to Mongolia; and Eat Spray Love (Blossom & Joan Sauers) to India. Nonfiction—UWA Publishing has sold...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Gordon Richardson OBE, president of the Library Association of Australia from 1967-68 and former principal librarian and principal archivist of the Public Library of NSW, has died aged 94.

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Attendance was up at this year’s Book Expo America (BEA), which ran from 4-7 June in New York, with Australian attendees reporting a buoyant fair. Readings’ books division manager Martin...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Anne and David Norman, owners of Whitcoulls, Farmers and other stores, were named Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours list...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
The Ditmar, Chronos and Norma K Hemming awards were announced at Continuum 8: Craftonomicon, the 51st Australian National Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne on Sunday. The Ditmar Awards recognise achievement in Australian...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Continuum 8: Craftonomicon, the 51st Australian National Science Fiction Convention, was held in Melbourne from 8-11 June, with a crowd that included 230 members of the convention. American editor at...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Specialist publisher Human Kinetics Australia and New Zealand has announced that managing director Chris Halbert will retire from her role at the end of this month. Halbert told Bookseller+Publisher that...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
‘This is the year that publishers and booksellers alike woke up to all the positives going on, and were determined to feed off each other’s knowledge and passion for books...

Wednesday, 13 June 2012
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Collecting Cooper (Paul Cleave, S&S) Luther: The Calling (Neil Cross,...