WBN published the results of its post-Christmas survey as a Special Bulletin last Friday, showing that over 90% of those surveyed had an ‘excellent’ or... Read more |
Problems at the Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) warehouse that began late last year caused many booksellers headaches over the busy Christmas period. ‘We suffered from... Read more |
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a milestone, with its 2006-07 distribution bringing the total returned to rightsholders since CAL’s establishment in 1989 to over... Read more |
Following Pan Macmillan’s decision not to proceed with the publication of a local edition of Andrew Morton’s biography of Tom Cruise, it now seems that... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that distributors can now join the association at a ‘significantly reduced membership fee.’ Distributors who do not publish... Read more |
Sydney-based company Amity Agency has launched what it says is Australia’s first ‘Web 2.0 community for book-lovers,’ www.booktagger.com. Booktagger is intended as ‘a community where... Read more |
A number of different year-end bestseller lists from around the world published recently demonstrate the wide variety of titles that become successful in different markets.... Read more |
Bookseller+Publisher will shortly be covering two important events of interest to those seeking to gain insights in the expanding Indian book market. On 31 January,... Read more |
DOI newsThe Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation has announced that the DOI system has made a number of steps forward, including a approval from the... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Turkey to amend controversial free speech law Waterstone’s celebrates a merry... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Professional Publishing in Asia 2008 Conference, New Delhi, 31 Jan-1... Read more |
It’s quite the mixed bag on the bestsellers list this week, as post-Christmas spenders forage to their hearts content. Ian McEwan’s Atonement stays at number... Read more |
John Collins writes: Brian Clouston AM (1925 – 2008) One of the larrikin publishers who survived and prospered in the sixties, Brian Clouston helped break... Read more |
Journalist and author Sandra Harvey has died aged 49. Sandra wrote five books on crime and criminal investigation and last year was awarded The Crime... Read more |
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