Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Bloomsbury Australia has appointed Bethia Thomas to the newly created position of digital marketing manager. Thomas, who joined the publisher in March, has previously worked in bookselling and publishing in...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Ebook provider and retailer Kobo has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that its self-publishing platform will launch within months and will be available to users in Australia and New Zealand. Director of...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
‘We understood that the shift to agency would be very costly to Penguin and its shareholders in the short-term, but we reasoned that the prevention of a monopoly in the...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Booksellers provided space for genre authors to meet with fans at the Supanova pop culture expo at Melbourne showgrounds on 13-15 April. Dymocks North Sydney ran a book stall selling various...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The shortlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The UK prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$46,000), is awarded for the best novel of the year written by...

Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The program for this year’s WordStorm festival, to be held in conjunction with the National Poetry Festival, has been announced. The festival will run from 10-13 May in Darwin, featuring...

Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The books from Suzanne Collins’ 'Hunger Games' series (Scholastic) dominate the charts once again, with Catching Fire still at the top of both the bestseller and highest new entries charts. The classic edition...

Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Nick Webb, author and former publisher, has died aged 63. Webb’s works include Wish You Were Here (2003), The Dictionary of Bullsh-t (2006) and The Dictionary of Political Bullsh-t (2010).

Monday, 16 April 2012
Lloyd is on top of the world—beautiful girls, great club sounds and a neverending supply of the love drug, sustained by a smuggling sideline for the local drug boss. But...

Monday, 16 April 2012
Please note that, due to the ANZAC Day public holiday next Wednesday, Bookseller+Publisher's Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday 26 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements remains...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Paul Kooperman, director of Australia’s peak poetry body, Australian Poetry Ltd, has resigned, following the resignations of general manager Robert Lukins and publications manager Victoria Amy. News site Crikey reports...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
International publisher Elsevier has recorded a two percent increase in underlying sales and a four percent increase in underlying operating profit for 2011. In its latest financial results, available online...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Harlequin has attributed declines in its revenue and earnings in 2011 to lower print sales in overseas markets. In its latest financial results, released by Canadian parent company Torstar at...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
The wife of a diplomat goes on a much needed weekend getaway with her three best friends. While enjoying themselves in Monte Carlo, their fun comes to a sudden halt after...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
‘Often, in the rush to bestow prestige on the recipient (and benefactor), administrators of literary awards can forget that giving out an award is only half the job; it also...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Ebooks sold online through JK Rowling’s Pottermore website are being published on most devices without digital-rights management restrictions (DRM). In place of DRM, each ebook has a personalized electronic watermark,...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
The New South Wales Government has announced that this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards will be presented at the State Library of NSW in November. The NSW Premier’s...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
In a letter to suppliers, school bookseller Education Works has announced the closure of its Wooldridges retail stores in Magill, South Australia, and Moorabbin, Victoria, as well as the closure...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that it will present a new award for digital innovation as part of this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs), the finalists for...

Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Australian cookbooks were among those honoured at the 2012 International Association of Culinary Professionals (ICAP) Food Writing Awards earlier this month. Christine Mansfield’s Tasting India (Lantern) won the award for...