An Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) delegation will attend a conference by its US industry counterparts in Asheville, North Carolina. The delegation attending the 10th American... Read more

The second annual Digital Writers’ Festival (DWF) has launched its 2015 program. The online-only festival, which is hosted by the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), will run from... Read more

Affirm Press publisher and Stella Prize co-founder and executive director Aviva Tuffield is a finalist in the 2015 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards. Tuffield is one of... Read more

More Australians are buying ebooks according to a study from Roy Morgan Research.  The study found that over the past two years, online sales of... Read more

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens (Vintage) has been announced as the winner of the Historical Fiction category on the American Library Association (ALA) 2015 Reading List.... Read more

Allen & Unwin has acquired the Australian and New Zealand rights to the ‘Zeroes’ YA trilogy by Sydney-based authors Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti.... Read more

Booksellers NZ is sending two booksellers to the US for the American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute conference (Wi10). Unity Books Wellington bookseller Matt Bialostocki and... Read more

Penguin will publish a series of 80 short classics to celebrate the publisher’s 80th birthday. The Little Black Classics range, published by Penguin UK, aims to showcase... Read more

A ‘world-first’ guide for authors running their own publicity campaigns in Australia will be published next month. The DIY Book PR Guide: The HAPPIER Guide to Do-it-yourself Book Publicity... Read more

The inaugural Photobook Melbourne festival and Australian Photo Book of the Year Awards will be held on 12-22 February. In a statement, festival organisers said... Read more

A one-off symposium on university publishing will be held at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra in March. The ‘Reinventing university publishing’ symposium, to be held from 17-19 March,... Read more

Exisle Publishing has appointed Matthew Pickering to the newly created role of digital affairs manager. Pickering, who will be based in Exisle’s Auckland office, will manage the publisher’s... Read more

Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold German rights to She’s Having Her Baby (Lauren Sams) to Egmont Ink. Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold Polish rights to Change... Read more

‘We can sell up to 50% of total sales in e-book edition in the first couple of weeks of a book’s life’—Allen & Unwin digital... Read more

The film tie-in edition of American Sniper (Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice, HarperCollins) has jumped from fourth to first spot in this week’s top... Read more

Australian author Colleen McCullough has died aged 77. The author passed away on 29 January in hospital on Norfolk Island. McCullough’s publisher HarperCollins has released a statement... Read more

A major survey of public library patrons’ use of digital content will be produced as a result of a new partnership between the Book Industry... Read more

A fire at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, one of Moscow’s largest university libraries, is being described as a ‘cultural Chernobyl’, reports... Read more

The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the ProQuest resource Early English Books Online are now openly available to members of the public,... Read more

Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird (various imprints), will publish her second book in July, reports Publishers Weekly. Go Set a Watchman,... Read more

When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid, a YA book about a transgender teen that won Canada’s 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award, is... Read more

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced its awards for children’s and young adult literature, including the Printz, Newbery, Caldecott and Stonewall. The Michael L... Read more

Simon & Schuster US has launched North Star Way, an imprint and service to help authors to build their public profile, said the company in... Read more

Amazon has released fourth-quarter and full-year figures, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, the online retailer’s sales increased 20% to US$88.99 billion (A$1.14 billion), but... Read more

Anne Enright has been appointed the inaugural laureate of Irish fiction, reports the Bookseller. As part of the role, which is worth €150,000 (A$218,630) over... Read more

In the UK, the shortlist for the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing has been announced, reports the Bookseller. The shortlisted titles are: The... Read more

The year 2015 is only in its early days, but already I know that Sydney writer Jen Craig’s novella, Panthers and the Museum of Fire,... Read more

Newcastle Writers Festival has launched its 2015 Kids Program, running from 16-21 March 2015. Guest speakers include Melina Marchetta, Garth Nix, Susaire Dunn and Kaz... Read more

A major survey of public library patrons’ use of digital content will be produced as a result of a new partnership between the Book Industry... Read more

A fire at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, one of Moscow’s largest university libraries, is being described as a ‘cultural Chernobyl’, reports... Read more

The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the ProQuest resource Early English Books Online are now openly available to members of the public,... Read more

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) launched the FAIR campaign at the Information Online 2015 conference in Sydney on Tuesday. Created by ALIA to... Read more

Teachers in New Zealand schools will not be able to request specialist National Library nonfiction books from July, reports stuff.co.nz.   In 2014, 16,000 teachers made... Read more

Book Industry Study Group and American Library Association announce library survey A major survey of public library patrons’ use of digital content will be produced... Read more

‘The ability for booksellers and publishers to articulate, reach and engage readers in their products is something that they can do better than anyone else,’... Read more

Oxford University Press Australia (Oxford) has acquired twenty-one law and business titles from CCH Australia (CCH). The acquisition is effective immediately.

Arrangements for first semester 2015 supply:

 

The arrangements also include a distribution arrangement which will enable Oxford to supply student packs that include CCH titles Australian Master Tax Guide, Australian Income Tax Legislation, Australian Master GST Guide and FBT Compliance Guide.

A full list of titles can be found here.

Standard Oxford Higher Education terms will apply on titles invoiced by Oxford. Customers are advised that returns for listed products purchased from CCH prior to the 29th of January can be returned to CCH in line with CCH’s returns policy. All listed products purchased from the 29th of January onwards will need to be purchased through OUP and will be subject to OUP’s returns policy.

Key contacts:
Oxford customer service: Tiana Hokins 1300 650616 and cs.au@oup.com 
Oxford higher education sales: National Sales Manager Paul Muller 07 3374 4381 or your local Higher Education Territory Manager.

ABC Books and HarperCollins Publishers are delighted to congratulate Emma Ayres and Judith Rossell, whose wonderful books have been shortlisted for the 2015 Indie Book Awards. Ayres is shortlisted in the non-fiction category for her provocative, intelligent, surprising and funny memoir, Cadence, while Rossell’s darkly funny and deeply mysterious Victorian fantasy-adventure, Withering-by-Sea, is shortlisted in the children’s and YA category. Congratulations, Emma and Jude!

To order copies of Cadence (9780733331893) and Withering-by-Sea (9780733333002), please contact HEDS: 1300 551 721; orders@harpercollins.com.au

We are pleased to announce that from 1 February 2015 Human Kinetics Australia will be distributing in this region for Thieme Publishers from our warehouse in South Australia.  Human Kinetics feels the cross-over with its sport, health and fitness range will be a good fit for Thieme’s medical range.

We look forward to working with you as we begin to distribute this exciting new range.

Congratulations to Alan Atkinson, who has won the eminent Victorian Prize for Literature for the third volume of The Europeans in Australia. Alan was also awarded the prize for non-fiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2015, announced on 28 February in Melbourne. An incredible achievement for a great historian and an important book. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and six winners.

To order The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation (ISBN: 9780868409979) contact TL Distribution (P: +61(2) 8778 9999, E: orders@tldistribution.com.au)

Nero will be publishing Dietland, an exciting and startling debut novel by Sarai Walker. Dietland has already created major pre-BEA buzz, been picked as Publisher’s Marketplace Buzz Book for Spring/Summer 2015 and sold into France, Israel, Turkey and the Czech Republic.

Alice Sebold, best-selling author of The Lovely Bones heralds it as: ‘A call to arms. Devious, subversive, delightful, Dietland is a Scum Manifesto set to a pop music beat and Plum Kettle a feminist hero for the modern age.’