Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Red Hill Digital, the digital ‘sister company' of Australian ‘fee for service' publisher Red Hill Publishing, has launched an ebook distribution service. The first title to be distributed is Ken...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
'Ending parallel import restrictions won't be the end of the world for Australia's bookshops. But if they are kept in place, the internet will kill off the local bookshop more...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Melbourne-based Therapeutic Guidelines has won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for ‘best ebook publisher', for the electronic product eTG complete. The award, which is open...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Fox title recommended in Oprah Book ClubTen Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury, Viking) has been recommended by Oprah in her Oprah's Book Club Kids' Reading...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
As expected, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol gets top place this week on both the Bestseller and Highest New Entries charts. The Guinness World Records 2010 comes second place on...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: National Young Writers' Festival, Newcastle, 1-5 OctoberTasmanian Poetry Festival, 2-4 OctoberConflux 6--speculative fiction convention, Canberra,...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Peter Temple's new novel Truth starts with a Templesque tease--Inspector Stephen Villani finds a woman dead in a bath. But the panic button was easily within reach ... the book...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
American historian Milton Meltzer has died, aged 94. His works include Up Close: John Steinbeck and Tough Times.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Text has sold Czech rights to Julie Catt's Normal to Jota, which published Kate Holden's In My Skin and Matt Rubinstein's A Little Rain on Thursday. Random...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
American illustrator Bernie Fuchs has died, aged 76.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Conservative US journalist, author and former US President Richard Nixon's speechwriter William Safire has died, aged 79. He wrote Freedom and Full Disclosure, among other titles.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Authors on tour from September to March 2010: SeptemberJeb Brugmann, UQP, (Welcome to the Urban Revolution)Joris Luyendijk, Scribe (Fit to Print)Phillip Karl, Cadmos (Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage)Padma Viswanathan, UWA...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
The Five Mile Press has announced that Michael Herridge has been appointed interim CEO of the company. The appointment follows the resignation, last week, of former CEO Lesley Williams, who...

Friday, 25 September 2009
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (A&U) is the overall winner of the second annual Indie Book of the Year. Silvey, whose book won the fiction category of the 2009 award, wins...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
‘Reworking the deal will not be an easy process ... as the parties must address issues ranging from class action law to copyright, as well as antitrust and foreign rights issues'--Publishers...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Australian book publishing industry (estimated at over $2 billion dollars in publishers' sales) posted another highly productive year in 2008, reports University of Melbourne Book Industry Study researcher Leslyn...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Mills & Boon romance brand will get a new look as part of plans to attract a younger audience. Marketing agency BMC Sydney will assist the imprint's owner Harlequin...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Australia-based software developer DNAML has launched a new software product that converts PDFs of trade titles to the digital ePub format. DNAML CEO Adam Schmidt told WBN that the software...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Amazon forces changes to LibraryThingScribd fights author lawsuitGoogle adds 2 million titles to Espresso...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
As reported on Bookseller+Publisher online on Monday, HarperCollins has announced a restructure of its publishing business that will see Sandy Weir, formerly of Hachette Australia's Orion division, joining the team...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Random House Australia (RHA) has launched a print on demand (POD) program that will allow it to produce single copies of out-of-print titles. The program, which has been 18 months...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Booksellers New Zealand has responded to the release in ebook format of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. The ebook, which Random House has made available to Australian and New Zealand...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Murdoch Books has sold German rights to MoVida Rustica, 100 Discoveries (Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish) and My Grill (Peter Evans); Slovenian rights to marie...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel will again be attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, to support and distribute Think Australian, the annual guide to Australia's presence at the fair, and to...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The newly created Centre for Books Writing and Ideas together with the Victorian Writers Centre, is asking Victorian booksellers and publishers to contribute to a database of literary activity in Victoria. The...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010 is number one in the Highest New Entries this week as Sydneysiders take to restaurants with gastronomical gusto. You can't keep Stephanie...