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Online sales, ebooks and ereaders 

Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Online sales growth for bricks-and-mortar stores Online sales are starting to gain traction for bricks-and-mortar bookstores. This year, more than half (54%) of bricks-and-mortar stores that sell print books online...

Publishers’ perspectives 

Tuesday, 17 December 2013
For the first time in several years, the majority of publishers are reporting an increase in sales in the lead-up to Christmas. In fact, all of the publishers who participated...

The wash-up 

Tuesday, 17 December 2013
With both booksellers and publishers reporting an increase in pre-Christmas sales this holiday season, the general mood in the industry appears to be optimistic. Torquay Books owner Rosemary Featherston observed...

SWF appoints new board members 

Friday, 13 December 2013
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Emile Sherman and Kathy Shand to the festival’s board of directors. Sherman is an award-winning producer and owner of the production company See-Saw...

London Book Fair to move to Olympia venue in 2015 

Friday, 13 December 2013
Reed Exhibitions has announced that the London Book Fair will be held in West London’s Olympia centre from 2015, with the current Earls Court venue earmarked for redevelopment. The Bookseller reported that there was concern...

Carole Blake wins 2013 Pandora Award 

Thursday, 12 December 2013
Women in Publishing UK has awarded the 2013 Pandora Award to literary agent and co-founder of London literary agency Blake Friedmann, Carole Blake. The Pandora Award recognises women for their significant...

Regan to head new Phaidon division 

Thursday, 12 December 2013
In the US, former HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan has been appointed as CEO of a new division of Phaidon Global called Regan Arts, reports Publishers Weekly. Regan Arts will include...

UK National Book Awards 2013 winners announced 

Thursday, 12 December 2013
The winners of this year’s UK National Book Awards have been announced. The winners include: An Officer and A Spy (Robert Harris, Hutchinson) for Popular Fiction Book of the Year; I Am...

Sleepers to distribute Duffy & Snellgrove ebooks 

Thursday, 12 December 2013
Melbourne-based publisher Sleepers Publishing has announced a new partnership with Duffy & Snellgrove that will involve Sleepers distributing Duffy & Snellgrove titles globally as ebooks. Under the arrangement, Sleepers will distribute...

Nash joins Pan Macmillan 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Haylee Nash has been appointed to the newly created role of commissioning editor of fiction at Pan Macmillan. Nash, who begins in the role on 16 December, was publishing manager...

ArtsHub launches online bookshop with Bookworld

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Arts website artsHub has launched an online bookshop in partnership with Bookworld. The artsHub bookshop opened to the public on 6 December, offering 200,000 titles divided into three main categories:...

A&U to publish children’s books directly into the UK 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish a ‘small number’ of its children’s books directly into the UK from 2014. A&U children’s publicist Lara Wallace told Books+Publishing that...

Charlotte Harper on the transition from digital to print 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Charlotte Harper, founder of digital-first publisher Editia, has written an essay for if:book Australia’s N00bz series reflecting on the publisher’s first print book releases. Editia and if:book will jointly publish the collected essays...

Swinburne Prahran campus library to close 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
The library at Swinburne University’s Prahran campus in Melbourne is due to close as the campus prepares to shut down. The Prahran campus library is will close on 20 December. The library said in a statement...

Last chance to complete our pre-Christmas survey 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers.  This is your last chance to complete the survey online.  Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

PacStream management to revert to owner B2Be 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
B2Be, owner of ecommerce service PacStream, has announced that it will manage the service from January 2014. Pacstream is currently managed by Thorpe-Bowker, owner of Books+Publishing. B2Be said in a...

Swinburne Bookshop Co-op Prahran closes 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
The Swinburne Bookshop Co-op in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran has closed. All stock from the store has been moved to the bookshop at the Swinburne University campus in Hawthorn, where new shelving is...

Hardie Grant launches recipe subscription website Cooked

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Hardie Grant Books has launched a recipe subscription website called Cooked, which draws on content from the publisher’s cookbooks and allows members to create their own recipe collections to share...

Quote of the week 

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
‘Books pages are full of authors reviewing authors, almost always in the uncomfortable position of writing about someone they know and in many cases someone they like’—the Saturday Paper editor...

 

 

 

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