From social media ‘evangelists’ to technophobes, booksellers are a mixed lot, but social media is a learning process for everyone, writes Matthia Dempsey in the... Read more |
Dymocks Booksellers has announced that Don Grover has resigned from his position as CEO of the Dymocks Group. Grover will finish in his position in... Read more |
Text Publishing has announced that Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler have acquired Scottish publisher Canongate’s shareholding in Text Publishing for an undisclosed sum.... Read more |
The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has made public a research report commissioned from Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) entitled Cover to cover: a market analysis... Read more |
The winners of the 2010 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on Friday 30 September. Miles Franklin-winner Kim Scott was awarded the $25,000 Premier’s... Read more |
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that each member of the PANZ Council has been given responsibility for their own industry portfolios.... Read more |
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that a new committee has been established to oversee the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the New Zealand Post... Read more |
Attendance figures at this year’s Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival in regional Western Australia were double those recorded at last year’s festival. Approximately 1400... Read more |
The owners of Pademelon Press have announced that they are selling the business. Pademelon Press, which specialises in early childhood teacher resources and reference books,... Read more |
Specialty science bookstore Embiggen Books is scheduled to reopen its doors at the end of this week, after flooding caused the store to temporarily close... Read more |
Really Blue Books, a new independent Australian digital publisher, will be launched at the beginning of next year. The publisher, which will focus on publishing... Read more |
Amazon released its much-anticipated tablet device last week, the Kindle Fire, along with a new range of Kindle eInk devices. Priced from US$199 (approximately A$209),... Read more |
ACCC decision on Amazon and the Book Depository delayedThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced on its website that the announcement of findings... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Canadian universities opt out of copyright collection society... Read more |
‘We estimate that inefficiencies in Australia’s book distribution system could account for between 6 per cent and 16 per cent of the price differential between... Read more |
On Fancy Goods this week, read the extended interview with Charlotte Wood on Animal People (A&U) as well as Heather Dyer’s review of Animal People.... Read more |
In rights news this week: SalesJenny Darling and Associates has sold US and UK rights to Seduced By Logic: Emilie du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and... Read more |
October Belinda Alexandra, HarperCollins (Golden Earrings) NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Peter Corris, NewSouth (Mad Dog) Sydney and Melbourne. John Edward, Sterling Publishing (What... Read more |
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Detective Alex Cross is on the scene of his biggest case. The President’s son and daughter have been kidnapped from their school and a deadly... Read more |
At the top of the most mentioned chart is Elliot Perlman’s The Street Sweeper (Vintage), a story that combines the civil rights struggle in the... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Fiji Literary Festival 2011: 2-9 October Australian School Library Association... Read more |
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Award-winning aboriginal author and historian Ruby Langford Ginibi has died aged 77. Langford Ginibi won the 1988 Human Rights Award for Literature and Other Writing... Read more |
Publisher Diana Gribble, co-founder of Text Publishing and McPhee Gribble, has died. Gribble founded the publishing house McPhee Gribble with Hilary McPhee in 1975. McPhee Gribble later became an... Read more |
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