Bookseller+Publisher magazine and its supplements are now available as online ‘e-mags’ at the Bookseller+Publisher Online website. To see the latest issue of the magazine online, click... Read more |
Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls (ARW) has launched the first retail ‘Espresso Book Machine’ (EBM) in Australia at its Melbourne Bourke Street store. The machine, which... Read more |
Collins Booksellers has announced the appointment of Daniel Jordon as managing director. Jordon, who commenced in the book industry as a bookseller for Grahames Bookshops,... Read more |
Niki Aravanis, project manager at the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), has been made redundant following an internal review. ‘The role of Project Manager within the... Read more |
Susannah McFarlane has confirmed that she has ‘reluctantly sold her 25% shareholding in Hardie Grant Egmont’, the children’s publishing company she ran and built since... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has joined forces with the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) and the Association for the Export of Canadian... Read more |
A novel set in the Cold War era in Australia is this year’s Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner. Andrew Croome receives $50,000 as prize and advance... Read more |
This year’s Brisbane Writers’ Festival was an ?unparalleled success’, festival director Michael Campbell told WBN. Initial figures indicate more than 30,000 attended the festival, which... Read more |
Random House is ‘very pleased’ with the weekend launch of Christopher Paolini’s Brisingr, Random House sales director Gavin Schwartz told WBN. Schwartz says that early... Read more |
Walker Books Australia celebrated 15 years of publishing for children last Tuesday, 16 September with a party at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. Attending the party were Walker... Read more |
ReadeR’s Books in Westpoint Shopping centre, Blacktown, is closing after one year of business due to high rental rates. Howard and Preetha Joseph told WBN... Read more |
Murdoch Books has announced Allen & Unwin will be its sole agent in New Zealand from 1 January 2009. ‘As the illustrated list has changed... Read more |
From 1 October 2008, Thorpe-Bowker will assume responsibility for all sales and marketing activities of the PacStream e-commerce service in both Australia and New Zealand,... Read more |
The English Teacher’s Association (ETA) of NSW has opposed the move to strengthen the teaching of Australian literature in schools. The ETA objects to ‘the selective... Read more |
Thorpe-Bowker will assume responsibility for all sales and marketing of UniLink’s BookNet retail point-of-sale (POS) solution, along with customer relationship management and support, ‘in order... Read more |
Ubud Writers’ and Readers’ festival program onlineThe Ubud Writers’ and Readers’ Festival is getting closer, and the full program is now available. From 14 to... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) information session – Adelaide, 30 September... Read more |
The Bestseller charts are heavy with a swathe of Stephenie Meyer books–Twilight coming in at number three–while both 4 Ingredients, 2 and the original frugal... Read more |
It’s been a bumper week for international news about publishing! Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog: Penguin looks to growth... Read more |
Even among my friends who don’t read (which, unfortunately, are the majority), they will still read in subject areas that interest them. It’s finding the... Read more |
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