Random House Australia made 11 positions redundant as of 5 March. WBN understands that many of those made redundant were in sales, particularly reps, but... Read more |
As the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into parallel importation regulations comes to a close, Dymocks has taken the extraordinary step of using its Booklovers loyalty scheme... Read more |
Scholastic Australia has announced that ‘in a major new initiative’ it has ‘combined and expanded its Trade and Sales Teams into one "Mega" Sales Force to enable... Read more |
After trading in the Heathmont Shopping Centre in Heathmont, Victoria, for over 40 years, Mountain Educational Books will be closing its doors at the end... Read more |
‘Random House Australia had a solid year in 2008,’ MD Margie Seale told WBN, as Random released its annual global results. ‘We grew our overall... Read more |
McGraw-Hill Education saw a 2.5% decline in total revenue in 2008, according to Publisher’s Weekly. A 5.4% decline in its school education group contributed to... Read more |
An accreditation system has been introduced by the Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd) in Australia, in order to assure employers that quality of work... Read more |
Elizabeth Riley, the ABA’s member services officer, has taken a leave of absence while she focuses her energies on dealing with a serious health issue.... Read more |
After the 80% takeover by Dymocks of 30-strong sandwich chain Healthy Habits, founder and managing director Katherine Sampson is relocating to Sydney to establish a... Read more |
The Tasmania Book Prize was announced during Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island Festival, held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The $25,000 award... Read more |
Tracy Ryan is the winner of the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize, worth $4000, for her poem ‘Lost Property’. Ryan told WBN the last year-and-a-half... Read more |
The sixth Williamstown Literary Festival will be held from 1 to 3 May 2009 with the theme of ‘Hidden Life of Suburbs’. The Williamstown Literary... Read more |
The Castlemaine State Festival in country Victoria concluded on 5 April, having run from 27 March. Ross Donlon, curator of the Literature Program, told WBN... Read more |
Jillian Ewart of NZ’s Bookseller’s News reports: Martin Taylor’s presentation on The Rise and Fall and Rise of E-books kick-started New Zealand’s Digital Publishing Seminars... Read more |
Women’s Bookshop celebrates 20 years Auckland’s Women’s Bookshop has celebrated 20 years with a night of literary celebration. More than 700 people attended the party,... Read more |
WA shopping centres pushed to extend trading hours The Shopping Centre Council of Australia has suggested extended weeknight trading hours and Sunday trading in Western... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Calibre Prize function at State Library of Victoria, 8 April... Read more |
‘Dymocks believes that the Australian book industry should be driven by the Australian book buyer and not the local subsidiaries and agents of overseas publishers’–Dymocks... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Random UK cuts 33 jobs US book sales down by 2.8%... Read more |
Well known chart-busting author Jodi Picoult comes first in the Highest New Entries this week with Handle with Care, which also comes at number five... Read more |
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Australian journalist and author Peter Wherrett has died, aged 72. He wrote Desirelines: An Unusual Family Memoir as well as many motoring books.
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