Random House announces publicity and marketing restructure
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Random House Australia has announced a restructure of its publicity and marketing teams, with four staff members moving into new roles at the start of next year. Random House Australia and...
Movie Pass Giveaway!
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Sales Fiction—Random House Australia has sold Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye (Caroline Overington) to the UK; The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings (Natasha Walker) to Poland and...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
George and Harold go back in time to the carefree days of kindergarten to face a sixth-grade bully in Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (Scholastic)....
Tiffany, Womersley shortlisted for BBC International Short Story Prize
Monday, 17 September 2012
Australian authors Carrie Tiffany and Chris Womersley have been shortlisted for the 2012 BBC Short Story Prize, which was opened up to international entries this year to celebrate the 2012...
Vann appointed QWC CEO
Thursday, 13 September 2012
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the appointment of Meg Vann as CEO. QWC chair Kevin Gillespie said Vann was ‘very passionate about continuing with and improving upon the...
Colin Roderick Award shortlist announced
Thursday, 13 September 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a secret history of Australian poetry...
HarperVoyager to accept unsolicited manuscripts in October
Thursday, 13 September 2012
In a call-out that will span three publishing markets, HarperCollins science-fiction and fantasy imprint HarperVoyager has announced that it will accept unsolicited manuscripts for digital publication in Australia, the UK...
Eymery to join Google Australia
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Google has announced that Agnes Eymery will join the Google Australia team to work on digital partnerships, including ebooks. Eymery currently works for Google in a similar role in London,...
BWF celebrates 50 years
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) ran from 5-9 September, following the presentation of the Queensland Literary Awards. The festival included an ‘all night party’ to celebrate the festival’s 50th birthday. This year’s festival was the...
Taskforce recommends new approach to processing low value parcels
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Federal Government’s Low Value Parcel Processing Taskforce has delivered its final report to government, recommending that reform to the current arrangements for processing low value goods from overseas suppliers...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
‘Gone are the days when publishers can think only of that small percentage of people who call themselves “book lovers”; everyone who has a device is a potential customer’—former Picador...
The Reading Room to launch ebook platform
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Sydney-based book networking website The Reading Room is preparing to launch an ebook retail platform. Owner and founder Kim Anderson told Bookseller+Publisher that the company’s ebook platform will have two...
New ebook platform for authors, publishers launched
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
A new Australian ebook retail platform for authors and publishers has been launched. Bkclb has been developed by author and designer Connor Tomas O’Brien and developer Fred Fan. The platform...
New Dymocks store to open in Prahran
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
A new Dymocks store will open in Prahran in Melbourne in October. The new store, which will officially open on 10 October, will be located at 269-271 Chapel Street, which...
‘End of an era’ for Dymocks in NZ
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
A spokesperson for Dymocks has confirmed that the bookselling chain is exiting the New Zealand market with the sale of its last New Zealand store in the Auckland suburb of...
Sherwin-Stark appointed Bloomsbury Australia MD
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Bloomsbury has announced that Louise Sherwin-Stark has been appointed as managing director of Bloomsbury Sydney. Sherwin-Stark, who is currently ebookstore merchandiser for Google Australia, will begin in the role on...
Caffin returns to BBWF
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Former Byron Bay Writers’ Festival (BBWF) director Jeni Caffin is returning to head up the festival. Caffin will start in the role at the beginning of November. She will also resume her former role...
Murdoch Books in sale negotiations with A&U
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Murdoch Books owner and chief executive Matt Handbury has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that the publisher is in negotiations to sell the business to Allen & Unwin. Handbury said Murdoch Books...
Edwards to retire from Hachette in 2013; Richell appointed deputy MD
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Hachette Australia has announced that CEO Malcolm Edwards will retire at the end of 2013 after almost 20 years with the company. The publisher said in a statement that Edwards...
Man Booker Prize 2012 shortlist announced
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng, Myrmidon Books) Swimming Home (Deborah Levy, And...
Farmer to leave HarperCollins; marketing & publicity divisions merged
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Christine Farmer will finish in her role as publicity and communications director for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand later this month, following an amalgamation of the publisher’s publicity and marketing...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Jim Stynes: My Journey (Jim Stynes & Warwick Green, Michael Joseph), former Melbourne Football Club president Jim Stynes’ memoir, has risen up to second place on the bestsellers chart, just under Fifty...
Indigenous publishers encouraged to apply for Ozco LOTE initiative
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The Australia Council has broadened the brief of its Languages Other than English (LOTE) publishing initiative to encourage applications from Indigenous publishers and organisations. The LOTE initiative supports ‘the translation...
OPUS reports $1.8 million loss, but McPherson’s ‘merger benefits tracking ahead of plan’
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
OPUS group, which acquired McPherson Printing Group earlier this year, has announced a $1.8 million loss after tax for the financial year ended 30 June 2012. However, this was up...
Courtenay announces he is terminally ill, next book to be his last
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Bestselling author Bryce Courtenay has announced that he has been diagnosed with terminal gastric cancer. Courtenay said on his Facebook page that he is ‘expected to have only some months...
Booktopia revenue up 46.5%
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Booktopia had achieved revenues of $20.8 million, excluding GST, for the 2011/12 year, up 46.5% from $14.2 million in 2010/11, according to CEO Tony Nash. Nash told Bookseller+Publisher this growth...
RiP Nina Bawden
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
British author Nina Bawden, best known for the children’s novel Carrie’s War, has died aged 87. Bawden wrote more than 40 novels for adults and children including Eyes of Green...
New owners for Dymocks Newmarket
Monday, 10 September 2012
The Dymocks store in Newmarket, New Zealand, has been sold to new owners, reports Beattie’s Book Blog. According to Publishers Association of New Zealand president Kevin Chapman, publishers were informed...
Education Works to be liquidated; Campion acquires Wooldridges
Monday, 10 September 2012
School bookseller Education Works will be liquidated, following a second meeting of the company’s creditors at the end of August. However, three of the nine businesses in the Education Works...
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