In the May/June issue of Bookseller+Publisher, which includes the Term 2 issue of Junior Bookseller+Publisher, you’ll find: 47 reviews of new Australian and New Zealand adult and... Read more |
As reported in a WBN special bulletin last week, the Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen has announced an extended deadline of 30 June for the Productivity Commission’s... Read more |
Writing about how the Productivity Commission could ‘usefully spend its additional time’ in studying parallel importation legislation in Australia, former John Wiley & Sons managing... Read more |
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) have both welcomed the extension of funding for the Books Alive campaign, included in last... Read more |
The Scribo Group has announced the appointment of Jon Attenborough to the role of general manager at Bookwise International. Attenborough, formerly managing director at Simon... Read more |
Melbourne’s Reader’s Feast Bookstore has become one of the first independent bookstores to carry a range of ebook readers. The store stocks the Bookeen Cybook,... Read more |
In what managing director Daniel Jordon said was ‘a major initiative’, Collins Booksellers will be introducing a loyalty scheme in the December quarter of 2009.... Read more |
Hachette Australia has announced an urgent recall of Betrayed by P C and Kristen Cast (Atom), ‘due to a printing error’. ‘As the incorrectly bound... Read more |
Dymocks in Brisbane’s CBD has closed due to the expiration of its current lease. The store closed on Tuesday 28 April. Dymocks CEO Don Grover... Read more |
A new Whitcoulls ‘icon’ store has opened in Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand. The refurbished store opened on 22 April. Sheryl Green, sales and operations director... Read more |
Australian author Michelle de Kretser is shortlisted for the Orange Prize Shadow Youth Panel Prize, for her book The Lost Dog (A&U). The youth panel... Read more |
The recently formed Australian Children’s Literature Alliance (ACLA) has announced it will hold two forums in Melbourne and Sydney. The forums are designed to provide... Read more |
Australia’s Biggest Book Group is a new initiative formed to raise funds and awareness for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The initiative, established by Lucy Burns,... Read more |
The shortlists for the Kibble Literary award and Dobbie Encouragement award 2009 have been announced. The Kibble Literary award, worth $25,000, recognises the work of... Read more |
Nielsen BookData has announced the shortlist for the 2009 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award, worth $NZ2500 ($AU1986). New Zealand booksellers vote for the... Read more |
Author/publishers Michael Wilding and Phillip Edmonds have announced the launch of Press On, a new publisher modelled on 18th- and 19th-century subscription models. Wilding told... Read more |
Newly appointed Brisbane Writers Festival artistic director Jane O’Hara has announced some changes for this year’s festival. ‘In addition to the more "traditional" genres [this... Read more |
New sponsor for NZ Book AwardsThe New Zealand Post will becomes the naming-rights sponsor of the New Zealand Book Awards from 2010 after the decision... Read more |
Among the stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon launches Kindle DX Amazon Kindle store optimised for iPhone HarperCollins... Read more |
In rights news this week: Nonfiction Hardie Grant has sold rights to Eat Ate by Guy Mirabella in co-edition deal to Inmerc Publishers (Kosmos) in the Netherlands, and... Read more |
‘Book-dumping–i.e. of remainders–is only a marginal risk. Kinokuniya’s buyers have agreed not to knowingly purchase Australian author’s books as remainders from overseas remainder merchants. Kinokuniya... Read more |
Tim Winton’s Breath tops the Highest New Entries chart this week as people get their mitts on the paperback version. Super sleuth Colin Mclaren’s book... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: A Commonwealth Bill of Rights: Do We Need It? —... Read more |
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Author and ‘ghost hunter’ Hans Holzer has died, aged 89. He was best known for Murder At Amityville.
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