Hitting back at the Dymocks petition launched last week, Australians for Australian Books (an umbrella group comprising the APA, Australian Society of Authors, Printing Industries... Read more |
A group of children’s authors has announced that it plans to stage a protest outside Dymocks’ central Brisbane store tomorrow (Thursday), protesting against the chain’s... Read more |
APA CEO Maree McCaskill has criticised last week’s ’roundtables’ held by the Productivity Commission to discuss its draft report on parallel importation. ‘In all my... Read more |
As Friday’s deadline approaches, trade bodies are busily preparing their final submissions to the Productivity Commission and encouraging their members to do likewise. The APA... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced program highlights for its 85th Annual Conference, to be held from 21 to 23 June at the Novotel Manly... Read more |
As Australian attendees prepare for the 2009 London Book Fair (LBF), which starts next Monday, Bookseller+Publisher magazine continues to support them with our annual guide to Australian participants... Read more |
In May, book distributor UNIREPS, owned by UNSW Press, will change its trading name to NewSouth Books and will move from the UNIREPS warehouse in... Read more |
Natalie Costa Bir has been announced as the recipient of the 2009 Unwin Trust UK-Australian Fellowship, for her proposal to study how online communities, blogs,... Read more |
While $128,000 in payments have been seized by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, conflicting reports state that Schapelle Corby is likely to be able... Read more |
Hobart’s Ellison Hawker Bookshop is celebrating its 60th birthday. The shop began as the Bijoux Newsagency in on Collins St in the Hobart CBD, in... Read more |
A new service for the self-publishing community called Published Now will commence operations in Australia from 1 May, followed by launches in New Zealand and... Read more |
Dymocks New Zealand will not yet be rolling-out kiosks or selling ebooks online and in stores, despite previous plans to introduce them early this year.... Read more |
The BBC has been asked to ‘reign in’ its commercial operations by a British Parliamentary Committee, reports The Bookseller, after its controversial purchase of a... Read more |
The Indie Award calls for submissionsSubmissions for the 2009 Indie Award, administered by Leading Edge Books, are now open, with a closing date of Friday... Read more |
In rights news this week: Fiction HarperCollins has sold French rights to Karen Miller’s books, written as KE Mills, Accidental Sorcerer and Witches Incorporated. Fremantle... Read more |
Be prepared to rub your eyes in disbelief when you peruse the charts this week. In a combined assault, Jodi Picoult and Wilbur Smith have... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist announcement, 16 April Closing... Read more |
‘The publishers and authors defending the status quo are the victims of a truly incredible mass hysteria the likes of which I’ve never seen in... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Is it okay for a library to lend a Kindle? ‘Gay... Read more |
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Derek Weiler, the editor of the Canadian publishing magazine, Quill & Quire has died, aged 40.
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American literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has died. She wrote Epistemology of the Closet and Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction.
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