A new report from Price Waterhouse Coopers and Frost and Sullivan suggests that 95% of consumers search the web for product information before making a... Read more |
Collins Booksellers has announced that it has reached an agreement with Kobo which will involve the bookseller building an ebookstore powered by Kobo, as well... Read more |
As announced by Pan Macmillan managing director Ross Gibb at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Monday 25 July, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a... Read more |
The 2011 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) national conference was held on 24 and 25 July in Melbourne, attracting around 300 attendees each day, with a... Read more |
The 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced on Monday 25 July at a ceremony in Melbourne. Hosted by comedian Alan Brough, the awards... Read more |
The shortlists for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards were announced in Melbourne on 26 July. This year’s finalists has been branded as ‘the Premier’s 21’,... Read more |
The winners of the inaugural Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Bookseller of the Year Awards and the Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award were announced at the... Read more |
The winners of this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards were announced on Wednesday 27 July. The winner of the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary... Read more |
The titles longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize have been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape) On Canaan’s... Read more |
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions served David Hicks with a notice of application for an order to restrain funds from the sale of Hicks’s... Read more |
Melbourne-based writer Myke Bartlett has won this year’s Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for his manuscript The Relic. Bartlett’s novel was chosen... Read more |
The IndieBound promotional resource platform was officially launched in Australia at the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference on Monday 25 July. The platform, which is... Read more |
Shaun Symonds, general manager Nielsen Bookscan, presented recent Nielsen sales data at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Monday 25 July. Data from the first 24 weeks... Read more |
Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) CEO Joel Becker announced at the ABA conference that Andrew Hawkins, former publicity director at Allen & Unwin, will be handling publicity... Read more |
Apple has begun to enforce its revised in-app selling rules that require third-party sellers to give Apple a 30% revenue share on any content sold... Read more |
The owners of the Angus & Robertson (A&R) franchise in Southport, Queensland have confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that they have purchased the formerly... Read more |
The Five Miles Press has announced that it will commence Australian trade sales and distribution from 1 August. The publisher, whose trade titles were previously... Read more |
Books at MIFF (BaM) was held at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on 21 July as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and... Read more |
Collins Booksellers has announced that buying manager Jenny McNear is retiring from the book industry. McNear began her bookselling career in 1991 with Book City... Read more |
Hannah McGlade, a human rights lawyer and social justice activist has won the 2011 Stanner Award. McGlade won the award, which is sponsored by the... Read more |
The 2011 Galley Club Awards for excellence in book and magazine production were announced by the Galley Club of Sydney on 22 July. The winner... Read more |
In a session on the Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF) at the Australian Booksellers Association conference on Sunday afternoon, program manager Debra Dank told the audience... Read more |
ReadHowYouWant to launch UK titlesCustomised printing company ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has announced that it will soon be producing titles from a number of UK publishers, as... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Bulwer-Lytton award for bad writing Books-a-Million abandons Borders... Read more |
Trying to get stock numbers right is ‘technically a buggery bollocks’–Michael Moynahan, CEO HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand, during the industry Q&A session at the... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week Andrew Wrathall gives a wrap-up the Book Buzz session at the ABA conference and Lachlan Jobbins reviews Lost in Transit:... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesChildren’s–Random House has licensed the first six titles in the ‘Alice-Miranda’ series (Jacqueline Harvey) to Random House London (previous rights... Read more |
August Robert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne. Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Paul Daley and Mike Bowers,... Read more |
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Cookbooks dominate the top of the bestsellers chart this week with Jamie’s 30-minute Meals (Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph) in first place and 4 Ingredients Kids (Kim McCosker &... Read more |
Bella Vendramini, author of Biting the Big Apple, is back with a new tale of her adventures called Naked in Public: A True Story of... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: New Voices Festival, Eltham, Vic: 30 – 31 July Authoring... Read more |
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John Reed, Managing Director and founder of A.H. & A. W. Reed Pty Ltd– the Australian arm of Reed in New Zealand, has died aged... Read more |
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