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...
APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2012 winners announced
Friday, 7 September 2012
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Melbourne on 6 September. At the awards ceremony held at Fed Square’s BMW Edge,...
New Kobo devices available in October
Friday, 7 September 2012
Kobo has unveiled three new ereading devices which will be available in Australia and New Zealand before the end of the year. The new devices—branded the ‘Kobo Family’ along with...
No local release date for new Kindle devices
Friday, 7 September 2012
Amazon unveiled an updated range of Kindle ereading devices on 6 September which includes a new line of Kindle Fire tablets and a new front-lit device called the Kindle Paperwhite....
Readings becomes tour operator
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Readings is expanding its offering to customers beyond books and music, by hosting a tour to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India in January next year. Readings event coordinator Chris...
Melbourne Prize for Literature, Best Writing Award 2012 finalists announced
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The finalists for this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature and Best Writing Award have been announced. The finalists for the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented to a Victorian author...
Queensland Literary Awards 2012 winners announced
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The winners of the inaugural Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced on 4 September on the eve of the Brisbane Writers Festival. The winners in each category are: Fiction book award...
Vic Prem’s award for Indigenous Writing shortlisted titles announced
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The titles shortlisted for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing have been announced. The announcement of the shortlist today and of the winner this afternoon are to...
‘Fifty Shades’ gives PMP ‘strong finish to the year’
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
PMP, parent company of book printer Griffin Press, has announced a ‘strong finish’ to the financial year for its book printing business, thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James,...
Bloomsbury Harry Potter bookshop competition
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Bloomsbury ran a competition to drive Harry Potter fans to physical bookstores in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the publication of the first book in the series. As previously...
NewsCorp results: Ebook sales ‘more than doubled’ for HarperCollins
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Sales of its ebooks have ‘more than doubled’ for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand for the 2011/12 financial year, according to CEO James Kellow. Kellow’s comments come after HarperCollins worldwide...
MWF 2012: box office up 10%; Griffiths, Callow top bestsellers list
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) recorded the festival’s highest box office earnings to date, with tickets sales up 10% on the 2011 festival. More than 50,000 people attended this year’s...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
‘As we rush head on into Indigenous Literacy Day I'm quietly wishing that 1% of all Australians everywhere will stop to swap a book and donate a gold coin’—Karen Williams,...
Heiss wins Vic Prem’s award for Indigenous Writing
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Anita Heiss has won this year’s $20,000 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her memoir on identity Am I Black Enough for You? (Random House). The award was...
2012 Davitt Awards winners announced
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
The winners of the 2012 Davitt Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime for crime books written by Australian women, have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories...
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