Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Murdoch Books has announced this week that HarperCollins Publishers has been appointed to manage all warehousing and distribution functions for the publisher in Australia and New Zealand. The new arrangement,...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
On Fancy Goods this week we have reviews of Alan Carter's crime novel Prime Cut (Fremantle Press) and Jeannie Baker's Indie-award-winning picture book Mirror (Walker Books), and a round-up of some...

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Our reviewers' top picks from the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher include books by Craig Sherborne, Favel Parrett, Adrienne Ferreira and Cate Kennedy. For more information on these titles and what our...

Monday, 14 March 2011
The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do (A&U) has won the overall Book of the Year Award at this year's Indie Awards. Do's book, which also won the best nonfiction category,...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Joel Naoum from Pan Macmillan has been awarded the 2011 Unwin Trust UK-Australia Fellowship. Naoum was chosen for the fellowship, which is supported by the Unwin Charitable Trust in the UK, for his...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Yass bookstore closes down The Little Dog Bookshop in Yass, NSW closed down in February. The bookshop, which opened in September 2007, was the first carbon-neutral bookstore in Australia.Changes to...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: NZ Book Month: 1-31 March The Bookworm International Literary Festival, Beijing: 4-18 March Shanghai International...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Peter FitzSimons' Batavia (William Heinemann), the true story of mutiny aboard the Dutch East India Company ship which struck a reef 80 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia in...

Monday, 14 March 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011
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Monday, 14 March 2011
James Herd, media services manager for McGraw Hill, writes:  'The publishing industry lost one of its most endearing and larger than life characters recently when Firgal Adams passed away suddenly. Firgal...

Monday, 14 March 2011
MarchNicole Alexander, Random House (A Changing Land) Sydney, Regional NSW and Regional QLD.Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan (Clifton Chronicles: Only Time Will Tell) Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide.Bernard Beckett, Text (August) Perth,...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Author Yvonne du Fresne has died in Wellington NZ, aged 81. Du Fresne wrote several novels and collections of short stories including Farvel and other stories (1980) and The Book...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that the date and venue for the Association's 2011 conference have changed. This year's conference will now be held at Te Papa in Wellington between...

Monday, 14 March 2011
Three independent bookstores in Hobart, Tasmania, and one independent bookstore in Mudgee, New South Wales, are currently for sale. In Hobart, booksellers Ann and Edward Gee are looking for new...

Thursday, 10 March 2011
Four Australians and two New Zealanders have been nominated for the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which will be announced at the end of this month. Australian authors Hazel Edwards,...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
International publishing house Harlequin has recorded a five percent decline in revenue for the 2010 financial year, with sales for the year's fourth quarter down two percent from 2009 figures. The Australian...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
The shortlist for the 2011 Barbara Jefferis Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:The Good Daughter (Honey Brown, Penguin)Like Being a Wife (Catherine Harris, Random House)Sustenance (Simone Lazaroo, UWA Publishing)Indelible...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
In rights news this week: SalesChildren's/YA--Hachette Australia has sold ‘Dragon Blood Pirates' books 1 to 3 (Dan Jerris) and Embrace (Jessica Shirvington) to Turkey; and Ella Kazoo Will Not Brush...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: US Supreme Court to hear fair use caseHarperCollins US launches digital imprintBorders US...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
As reported in today's Weekly Book Newsletter, Simon & Schuster is the latest local publisher to announce a revision of its pricing schedules. In the current issue of Bookseller+Publisher Simon...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Afterlife (HarperCollins) by Claudia Gray, the fourth book in the paranormal ‘Evernight' series, is top of the bestsellers chart as well as the highest new entries chart this week. The...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, read Chris Harrington's interview with Elizabeth Stead about her new novel The Sparrows of Edward Street (UQP), and reviews of Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
'Around 2004 the Australian Bureau of Statistics ceased collecting and publishing comprehensive statistics on the Australian book publishing industry. The lack of data since this time has adversely impacted publishers...

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Kobo has announced increased investment in the company in a funding round reportedly led by Fidelity Investments and which Kobo says includes further investment from founding shareholders Cheung Kong subsidiary...