Tuesday, 10 December 2013
The Women’s Bookshop in Auckland has been named the Penguin New Zealand Independent Bookseller of the Year for 2013. The Women’s Bookshop is owned by Carole Beu. In a statement published...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
The Saturday Paper, a weekly newspaper to be launched by Schwartz Publishing in the first quarter of 2014, will include book coverage with pseudonymous reviews. The identity of reviewers will...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
This issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter will be the last for 2013. The first issue for 2014 will be published on 8 January. Any material submitted online or emailed...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Last day of business in 2013 First day of business in 2014 Allen & Unwin (Australia) Tuesday 24 December (closing 1.30pm) Thursday 2 January Allen & Unwin (New Zealand) Tuesday...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold UK rights to Prime Cut and Getting Warmer (Alan Carter); and German rights to Prime Cut. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold US rights to 20 x...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Tracy Strudley, sales and marketing director of New Zealand educational publishing company Global Education Systems, has been elected to the council of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ). Strudley...

Monday, 9 December 2013
There are no changes at the top of this week’s bestsellers chart, with Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) and Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) in first...

Friday, 6 December 2013
Scribe has announced the joint winners of its inaugural nonfiction prize for young writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The winning titles are: ‘I Don’t Know’ by Briohny Doyle ‘34 Memories from...

Thursday, 5 December 2013
Elissa Baillie will join Simon & Schuster Australia in January in the role of sales director. Baillie currently works for Penguin US, where she manages sales for the Penguin Young...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A new report from the National Australia Bank (NAB) has revealed that Australians spent $14.4 billion on online purchases in the year to October 2013, up $2 billion on the...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
A number of Copia-powered online stores have been launched in the past few months. Some of the stores are ebooks-only, while others sell a mixture of print and ebooks. The...

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
‘Back to 2009 levels—very exciting!’—A bookseller reports on their store’s Christmas sales to date in the Books+Publishing pre-Christmas survey. Booksellers and publishers, click here to complete the survey.

Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Australian online news publication the New Daily, which was launched in November, is including coverage of books in its entertainment section. The New Daily entertainment editor Antonia Acott told Books+Publishing that the...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
In New Zealand, Paul Thomas’ Death on Demand (Hodder Moa) has won this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction. Death on Demand is the fourth book in...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter (11 December) will be the last for 2013. The first Weekly Book Newsletter for 2013 will be 8 January 2013. Any news or advertisements for the...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Friday 6 December. If your business doesn’t appear on this week’s...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Last day of business in 2013 First day of business in 2014 Andrews McMeel Publishing Friday 20 December Monday 13 January Arbon Publishing Friday 20 December Monday 6 January Australian...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold Arabic Language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Dr Russ Harris and Bev Aisbett); and English language rights for Malaysia and Singapore to Growing...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
French-born US publisher, editor and author André Schiffrin has died, aged 78. Schiffrin joined Random House imprint Pantheon Books in 1962, rising to become its editor-in-chief and managing director. At...

Monday, 2 December 2013
Discount department store Big W has renewed its sponsorship of Mamamia’s online book show The Book Circle for another year. The show, which was launched in 2012 as a partnership...

Monday, 2 December 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced a number of the authors and illustrators who will participate in its 2014 School Days program, to be held between 19 and 23...

Monday, 2 December 2013
For the second week in a row, Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) and Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) are in first and second place respectively on...