Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Bloomsbury ran a competition to drive Harry Potter fans to physical bookstores in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the publication of the first book in the series. As previously...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Sales of its ebooks have ‘more than doubled’ for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand for the 2011/12 financial year, according to CEO James Kellow. Kellow’s comments come after HarperCollins worldwide...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) recorded the festival’s highest box office earnings to date, with tickets sales up 10% on the 2011 festival. More than 50,000 people attended this year’s...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
‘As we rush head on into Indigenous Literacy Day I'm quietly wishing that 1% of all Australians everywhere will stop to swap a book and donate a gold coin’—Karen Williams,...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Wiley has reported revenue in the Asia Pacific division of its Global Education segment fell by $13 million (approximately A$12.7 million) or eight percent in the fourth quarter, ‘reflecting softness in the...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Sales Fiction—Spinifex has sold Macedonian translation rights to My Sister Chaos (Lara Fergus) to ArsLamina. Children’s/YA—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare have sold Taiwanese rights to Looking for Rex (Jan...

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Andy Griffiths’ The 26-storey Treehouse (Pan), about a treehouse that includes an anti-gravity chamber, a mud-fighting arena and a dodgem car rink, is first on the fastest movers chart and seventh...