Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Nielsen BookScan has released sales figures for the first 12 weeks of 2009 (to 21 March), showing that the market grew by a very healthy 6.7% by value and 5.6%...

Wednesday, 22 April 2009
As reported in a WBN special bulletin last week, the shortlist for the Miles Franklin award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Breath (Tim Winton, Penguin) Ice (Louis Nowra,...

Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Random House Australia has announced the publication date of Dan Brown's new novel The Lost Symbol as 15 September, 2009. The announcement was made yesterday by Sonny Mehta, chairman and...

Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Children’s authors took to the streets in Brisbane last week on Thursday 16 April, in protest against the ‘Coalition for Cheaper Books’, and its stance on an open market being...

Wednesday, 22 April 2009
WBN correspondent Lachlan Jobbins reports: Despite grim economic forecasts and slightly lower registrations (The Bookseller reported registrations down by 2% on last year), the Australians at London Book Fair mostly...

Wednesday, 22 April 2009
FictionScribe Publications' fiction acquisitions editor, Aviva Tuffield, has acquired actor Katie Wall's debut novel I Say Tomato, a romantic comedy about an Australian actress trying to make it in the...

Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Simon & Schuster reported a sales decline of 3% in 2008, to US$857.7 million (AU$1216 million), according to Publisher's Weekly, though fourth-quarter revenues were slightly up (from US$242.3 million [AU$343.5...

Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Among the many items added to our Around the World blog in a big update this week:firebombers plead guilty to attacking publisher's housePulitzer Prize winnersUK retailers discount Dan Brown by...

Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Novelist J G Ballard has died, aged 78. His novels included Crash, Empire of the Sun, The Wind from Nowhere and The Drought.

Tuesday, 21 April 2009
US author James D Houston author of Continental Drift, Snow Mountain Passage and Farewell to Manzanar has died, aged 75.

Wednesday, 15 April 2009
As Australian attendees prepare for the 2009 London Book Fair (LBF), which starts next Monday, Bookseller+Publisher magazine continues to support them with our annual guide to Australian participants at this key international rights...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
APA CEO Maree McCaskill has criticised last week's 'roundtables' held by the Productivity Commission to discuss its draft report on parallel importation.'In all my years of doing this sort of...

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Is it okay for a library to lend a Kindle?'Gay writing' falls foul of Amazon ranking systemAmazon...

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...