Tuesday, 14 April 2009
‘The publishers and authors defending the status quo are the victims of a truly incredible mass hysteria the likes of which I've never seen in my 35 years of publishing....

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
The Indie Award calls for submissionsSubmissions for the 2009 Indie Award, administered by Leading Edge Books, are now open, with a closing date of Friday 8 May. The Indie Award...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Dymocks New Zealand will not yet be rolling-out kiosks or selling ebooks online and in stores, despite previous plans to introduce them early this year. Dymocks New Zealand general manager...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
In rights news this week:FictionHarperCollins has sold French rights to Karen Miller’s books, written as KE Mills, Accidental Sorcerer and Witches Incorporated. Fremantle Press has sold Hungarian language rights for...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
In May, book distributor UNIREPS, owned by UNSW Press, will change its trading name to NewSouth Books and will move from the UNIREPS warehouse in Randwick to TL Distribution in...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
While $128,000 in payments have been seized by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, conflicting reports state that Schapelle Corby is likely to be able to keep either $270,000 or...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
The BBC has been asked to ‘reign in’ its commercial operations by a British Parliamentary Committee, reports The Bookseller, after its controversial purchase of a majority share in Lonely Planet....

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
A new service for the self-publishing community called Published Now will commence operations in Australia from 1 May, followed by launches in New Zealand and the UK.The company will offer...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Natalie Costa Bir has been announced as the recipient of the 2009 Unwin Trust UK-Australian Fellowship, for her proposal to study how online communities, blogs, and social networking can help...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Hobart’s Ellison Hawker Bookshop is celebrating its 60th birthday. The shop began as the Bijoux Newsagency in on Collins St in the Hobart CBD, in 1949. Ellison Hawker was the...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Be prepared to rub your eyes in disbelief when you peruse the charts this week. In a combined assault, Jodi Picoult and Wilbur Smith have finally knocked Stephenie Meyer off...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist announcement, 16 AprilClosing date for the Australian Educational Publishing...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
American literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has died. She wrote Epistemology of the Closet and Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction.

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Derek Weiler, the editor of the Canadian publishing magazine, Quill & Quire has died, aged 40.

Wednesday, 8 April 2009
'Dymocks believes that the Australian book industry should be driven by the Australian book buyer and not the local subsidiaries and agents of overseas publishers'--Dymocks CEO Don Grover in a...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Random UK cuts 33 jobsUS book sales down by 2.8% in 2008Consumers boycott Kindle over pricing'Nibbies' --...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
As the Productivity Commission's inquiry into parallel importation regulations comes to a close, Dymocks has taken the extraordinary step of using its Booklovers loyalty scheme to urge its customers to...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
After the 80% takeover by Dymocks of 30-strong sandwich chain Healthy Habits, founder and managing director Katherine Sampson is relocating to Sydney to establish a new head office within Dymocks...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
'Random House Australia had a solid year in 2008,' MD Margie Seale told WBN, as Random released its annual global results. ‘We grew our overall sales by almost 4% in...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Scholastic Australia has announced that 'in a major new initiative' it has 'combined and expanded its Trade and Sales Teams into one "Mega" Sales Force to enable even greater coverage of independent...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
McGraw-Hill Education saw a 2.5% decline in total revenue in 2008, according to Publisher's Weekly. A 5.4% decline in its school education group contributed to the overall decline. Total revenue...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
The Tasmania Book Prize was announced during Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island Festival, held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The $25,000 award went to James Boyce for...

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
The Castlemaine State Festival in country Victoria concluded on 5 April, having run from 27 March. Ross Donlon, curator of the Literature Program, told WBN it was a ‘very successful'...