Bookseller+Publisher magazine and Bookseller+Publisher Online/WBN regularly survey our readers to ensure that your trade publications are relevant and useful. For the first time, we have... Read more |
Four of Australia’s independent book distributors — Bookwise, Gary Allen, Tower Books and Brumby Books & Music — have announced that they have reached agreement to... Read more |
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, after a number of delays, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced that it... Read more |
Figures lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) by A&R Whitcoulls show that the Australian A&R stores posted a net loss of $961,000... Read more |
Australians are guaranteed at least two regional awards at this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (CWP). Local novelists occupy all 11 spots on the shortlists for... Read more |
Dymocks has launched a list of the 101 titles that its customers have voted as "Booklovers’ Best". More than 15,000 people took part in the on-line... Read more |
Sophie Cunningham has been appointed as the editor of literary journal Meanjin. Cunningham took the reins this week, promising longer essays, more cultural politics and... Read more |
Three changes have been announced this year’s Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program at the Adelaide Writers Week. New guests Andreas Campomar (commissioning editor, Constable &... Read more |
Lesley McKay has joined the judging panel for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Sydney historian and bookshop owner replaces Eve Abbey, who retired... Read more |
Melbourne’s Abbotsford Covent served as a shrine to literature last weekend, as Reader’s Feast held its inaugural Writers at the Convent festival. With thousands of... Read more |
The entry period for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (the ABIAs) opens on Monday 3 March. Publishers can enter as many times as they... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced a new training module for booksellers, aiming to help them sell more children’s books. The ABA’s new training... Read more |
Self-published authors have a new outlet to sell their books, with the launch of an online store by print-on-demand company BookPOD. ‘Many of our customers have taken... Read more |
Dymock’s Ultimo ‘superstore’ has emerged unscathed from last week’s fire at Broadway Shopping Centre, aside from a damaged air conditioner. Staff and customers were forced... Read more |
Australian bookshops and libraries are now able to stock the state-of-the-art e-book reader iLiad, thanks to Central Book Services (CBS). ‘A device as small and light... Read more |
Dave Eggers and Tom Stoppard have joined the chorus of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, politicians, sportspeople and artists calling on China to help bring peace... Read more |
New book on Copyright ActThe Australian Copyright Council has released a new book covering the 2006 amendments to the Copyright Act. The Council has also... Read more |
Among the international book-trade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Shortlist for inaugural Arabic fiction prize Publicists ‘devote half... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Perth Writers Festival, 22-24 February Closing date for submissions to... Read more |
‘This is one of the only ways we can break the backs of the monopolists who are currently seriously damaging our fields,’ Harvard University’s professor of... Read more |
Stephen King’s new horror novel Duma Key is number one in the highest new entry charts this week. The title refers to an island in... Read more |
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