Monday, 19 November 2012
Russian science-fiction writer Boris Strugatsky has died, aged 79. Strugatsky wrote 27 novels with his late brother Arkady, as well as two novels on his own, Search for Designation or...

Monday, 19 November 2012
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world rights (excluding ANZ) to On the Abolition of All Political Parties (Simone Weil; first English translation by Simon Leys) to The New York Review...

Monday, 19 November 2012
Cookbooks dominate the top end of the bestsellers chart and fastest movers charts this week with Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) in first place and Donna Hay’s Fresh...

Friday, 16 November 2012
Approximately 100 booksellers and publishers attended this year’s Australian Campus Booksellers (ACBA) Conference in Brisbane from 13-16 November. ACBA president and general manager of Vic Books in Wellington, New Zealand, Juliet...

Thursday, 15 November 2012
Dymocks will undertake ‘a new marketing approach to make books the preferred gift choice at Christmas’, according to the managing director of its new advertising agency Razor. Razor managing director...

Thursday, 15 November 2012
The Australia Council has announced new grants of up to $40,000 ‘to support a small number of two-way creative partnerships between artists working in Australia and Asia’. The grants will...

Thursday, 15 November 2012
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) is predicting that Christmas sales in the retail sector will increase 3.9% on the same period last year. The association predicts retail consumers will spend...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Small Press Network, the rebranded Small Press Underground Networking Community, is already planning for the 2013 Independent Publishers Conference following a successful inaugural event in Melbourne last week.  General manager...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Co-op Bookshop has confirmed that it has acquired the Edith Cowan University bookshops. ‘We’re absolutely delighted to soon have a presence at Edith Cowan University and we look forward...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Matilda’s Books in Mount Waverley, Victoria, is due to close in a few months time, after 22 years. Julie McInnes, who has owned the bookstore for five years, announced the...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Author and academic Emmett Stinson announced that he will be editor of a new format of The Journal of Publishing during the Small Press Network Independent Publishers Conference. Stinson said...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
SPUNC (the Small Press Underground Networking Community) has announced it will rebrand to Small Press Network. General manager Zoe Dattner told Bookseller+Publisher the rebrand was something the organisation had been...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Simon & Schuster has announced several staff changes.  Kate Cubitt has been promoted to sales director with ‘overall responsibility for ANZ sales strategy and strategic management of all product’ including...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Peter Kirby has retired from the Constant Reader bookshop after 33 years.  Kirby has sold the business, located in Crows Nest, New South Wales, to store manager Jay Lansdown, who...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has moved into new offices.  The publisher, which was formerly housed, along with the literary journal Meanjin, in Grattan Street, Carlton, in Melbourne, has moved ‘up...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Independent Distribution Solutions (IDS), a distribution arm of Christian book and music distributor CMCA, finished trading at the beginning of this year. Former IDS director and CMCA board member John...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Thorpe-Bowker has officially launched the My Identifiers platform in Australia, replacing the Australian ISBN Agency. Thorpe-Bowker general manager Gary Pengelly launched the platform at the inaugural Independent Publishers Conference in Melbourne...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
A new online literary journal will be launched in early December. The Sydney Review of Books (SRB), modeled on the London Review of Books and the New York Review of...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Sales Fiction—Scholastic has finalised a US deal for The Very Hungry Bear (Nick Bland); and has licensed Korean language rights to My Dad’s The Coolest (Rosie Smith & Bruce Whatley) and...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
In The Golden Land (Macmillan), Di Morrissey explores the troubled history of Burma through a contemporary story about a young Gold Coast mother whose interest in the country is ignited...