Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Riverbend Books has launched a new website, featuring live inventory information alongside other title information. Riverbend Books owner Suzy Wilson told Bookseller+Publisher that updating the website was a necessary step...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Scholastic has announced that sales at the company rose 14% for the year ending 31 May, rising to US$2.15 billion (A$2.04 billion) from US$1.89 billion (A$1.79 billion) in 2011. Scholastic said...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Oxford University Press has reported a 10% growth in sales for the financial year ending 31 March. Sales for the year were £695.5 million (A$1.04 billion), up from £648.6 million...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced changes to its council. Karen Ferns has stepped down from the PANZ council due to the demands of her new role...

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Collecting Cooper (Paul Cleave, S&S) Luther: The Calling (Neil Cross,...

Monday, 13 August 2012
Sales Fiction—UWA Publishing has sold Indian rights to The Walls of Delhi (Uday Prakash, translated by Jason Grunebaum). Nonfiction—Murdoch Books has sold North American, Dutch, French, German, Swedish, Polish and...

Monday, 13 August 2012
QF32 (Richard De Crespigny, Macmillan), in which Flight Captain Richard De Crespigny narrates the true story of a near-fatal flight from Singapore to Sydney in November 2010, is third on the fastest-movers chart and...

Monday, 13 August 2012
Helen Gurley Brown, former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and the author of Sex and the Single Girl (1962), among other books, has died aged 90.

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
‘One of the only commonalities among the people I met who work specifically on digital projects is that, five years ago, they couldn’t have imagined what they are doing now....

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Former Penguin editor Jane Morrow has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into digital developments in US publishing, following placements with Penguin in New York, Chronicle Books in San...

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
A number of Australian authors have been nominated for this year’s ‘Not the Booker’ Prize, run by the Guardian in the UK. The prize has the same criteria as the...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Collins Booksellers Shepparton in regional Victoria was named Franchise of the Year at this year’s Collins Booksellers national conference, held between 5 and 7 August in Byron Bay. Franchisees Joe...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Claire Kearney, long-time Melbourne bookseller, has died aged 79. Paul Donovan, Allen & Unwin, writes: ‘Claire Kearney, for so long the doyen of The Hill of Content Bookshop at 86...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Maeve Binchy, bestselling Irish author who sold more than 40 million books worldwide and received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards in 2000, has died aged 72....

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Gore Vidal, US author who wrote 25 novels, including historical works such as Lincoln and Burr, has died aged 86. Vidal's essays on politics, sexuality, religion and literature earned him...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Robert Hughes, Australian-born author and art critic, has died in New York aged 74. Hughes’ works include The Fatal Shore, a study of the settlement of Australia; Things I Didn't Know, a...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Hal Spacejock and Hal Spacejock: Second Course (Simon Haynes); and Romanian rights in Edge of the World (Marcella Polain). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Chinese-simplified translation...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
A rare strain of magic is spreading across the land, ‘infecting’ normal people and giving them wild and unstable powers. In Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked by touring Irish author Derek...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Booksellers New Zealand chairman Hamish Wright has been re-elected to the Booksellers NZ board as a director. Wright commences a two-year term as director, having completed four years as chair....