Further to last week’s announcement that Allen & Unwin will move its distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to the Pearson-owned United Book Distributors (UBD),... Read more
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Pacific Equity Partners, the private equity owners of Angus & Robertson in Australia and Whitcoull’s in New Zealand, has lodged an ‘indicative bid’ for the 24... Read more
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Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning) has announced the appointment of Tan Tat Chu to the role of president of ‘a newly formed Asia-Pacific Group that... Read more
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Australia’s third-largest book printer Ligare has announced it will merge with Southwood Press Book Printers. The merger, which will officially take place on Monday 8... Read more
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A ‘behind the scenes’ title on celebrity culture by former New Zealand Woman’s Day editor Wendyl Nissen that was due to be published by HarperCollins... Read more
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Workers at the Brisbane plant of printer PMP held a two-day strike last week, over what Australian Manufacturing Workers Union spokesperson Danny Dougherty told ABC... Read more
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PMP, the parent company of book publisher Griffin Press, is ‘in a much stronger position that it was three years ago, and better equipped to... Read more
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The fifth Canberra Readers and Writers Festival was held in Canberra at Exhibition park alongside the Lifeline Bookfair from 21 to 23 September. According to... Read more
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The inaugural Manly ‘Writers on the Rooftop’ festival, held as part of the Manly Arts Festival ‘went really well’, attracting around 500 people, according to... Read more
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The State Library of Western Australia’s family literacy program this week won a top award for its role in fostering literacy in the community. The... Read more
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No One Belongs Here More Than You (Text) by US writer and filmmaker Miranda July has won the 2007 Frank O’Connor award–the world’s richest short... Read more
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Clarification: Hachette NZ Further to the ‘in brief’ story in last week’s WBN, WBN wishes to clarify that Hodder Moa Beckett’s name change to Hachette Livre... Read more
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In news from our Around the World blog this week: New Borders UK owner outlines his plans Oprah and the ‘If I Did It’ saga... Read more
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Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali 25 – 30 September... Read more
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‘The fact is only about 30 or 40 per cent of people ever buy a book, so there is potential for a greater proportion of... Read more
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Ian Rankin’s latest offering Exit Music takes the prize this week shunting Kathy Reich’s Bones to Ashes to second place. Rankin would hope it stays... Read more
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Sally Bird from Calidris Literary Agency writes: ‘It is with the deepest sadness that I advise of the death of travel writer Wendy Khadijah Moore.... Read more
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