Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Bulwer-Lytton award for bad writingBooks-a-Million abandons Borders US bid Amazon set to open in...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
In a session on the Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Sunday afternoon, program manager Debra Dank told the audience that in 2009-2010 the foundation...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Trying to get stock numbers right is ‘technically a buggery bollocks'--Michael Moynahan, CEO HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand, during the industry Q&A session at the Australian Booksellers Association national conference....

Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's--Random House has licensed the first six titles in the 'Alice-Miranda' series (Jacqueline Harvey) to Random House London (previous rights sales to North America, Turkey...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:Whitsunday Writers Festival: 22-24 July87th ABA Conference & Trade Exhibition: 24-25 JulyNew Voices Festival, Eltham, Victoria:...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
International publisher John Wiley & Sons has recorded a three percent increase in total revenues and a 20% increase in net income for the fiscal year ending 30 April 2011. In the...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Allen & Unwin has announced that former HarperCollins chief operating officer Jim Demetriou will join the publisher in the role of sales and marketing director at the beginning of next month.  ...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, we check out who to follow on Twitter during the ABA Conference, Dave Martus reviews 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
The Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin has announced that it will offer creative writing courses in Melbourne this year. The Academy, which launched in Australia with a Sydney program...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Australia Post has confirmed that it 'incurs a substantial loss' on the processing of inbound international parcels. In a submission to the Productivity Commission Retail Inquiry, Australia Post estimated that...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
‘Australia Post estimates that it will make a loss of A$1.06 per inbound international airmail packet (parcels less than 2 kilograms) on a volume of approximately 39.7 million articles'--Australia Post...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
In the late 1950s an out-dated and aging magician travels the globe in search of work, forced to accept increasingly obscure engagements to get by. Travelling to Scotland, his gloom...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Borders US to be liquidated: 400 stores to close the Bookseller joins opposition to...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Among the top picks from the August issue of Bookseller+Publisher are Anna Funder's debut novel All That I Am (Hamish Hamilton, September), Empire Day (Diane Armstrong, Fourth Estate, September), House...

Tuesday, 19 July 2011
4 Ingredients Kids (Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham, 4 Ingredients), the latest cookbook in the series, containing 270 ‘child-friendly' recipes, tops the fastest movers chart and appears in fourth place on...

Monday, 18 July 2011
The shortlists for this year's Deadly Awards, presented to Indigenous Australians for excellence in the areas of music, sport, entertainment and community, have been announced. The nominees for the Outstanding...

Monday, 18 July 2011
Book designers Pieta Brenton, Sarah Healey and Spencer Levine have been shortlisted for the 2011 New Zealand AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award. Announcing the shortlist, judges Dexter...

Monday, 18 July 2011
Text Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2011 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing, presented to an unpublished manuscript by an Australian or New Zealand writer. The...