Weekly Book Newsletter (end March 2022)
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21 June 2017

 

Over 300 attend 2017 ABA Conference; Mutter, Daunt offer advice on combatting Amazon x

Over 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, which was held in Melbourne from 18-19 June. ABA chief... Read more
 
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2017 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award was announced at the Australian Booksellers Association’s gala dinner in Melbourne on 18 June. The shortlisted... Read more
 

 

‘The Birdman's Wife’ wins ABA Booksellers Choice Award; booksellers of the year announced

Melissa Ashley’s The Birdman’s Wife (Affirm) has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Booksellers Choice Award at the 2017 ABA conference awards night, held in... Read more
 
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National Bookshop Day rebranded

The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has rebranded its annual National Bookshop Day as Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD). This year, on 12 August, Australian booksellers... Read more
 

Bill to simplify copyright materials for libraries, education and people with disabilities passes Parliament

A Bill amending the Copyright Act 1968 to simplify the use of copyright materials for libraries, educational institutions, archives and people with disabilities passed Federal... Read more
 
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Government delays plan to introduce GST on all online purchases

The federal government has delayed its plan to repeal the $1000 GST-free threshold for online purchases from overseas retailers from 1 July this year to... Read more
 

 

Magabala celebrates 30th anniversary

Broome-based publisher Magabala Books is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. Magabala CEO Anna Moulton told Books+Publishing the anniversary is an opportunity to ‘celebrate the... Read more
 

 

Wheeler Centre podcast ‘The Messenger’ wins international radio program award

The Wheeler Centre and Behind the Wire’s co-produced podcast The Messenger won a Grand Award at the New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards on... Read more
 

Mudgee Readers’ Festival 2017 program out now

The Mudgee Readers’ Festival has released its 2017 program. The event, which runs from 10-13 August in regional NSW, will feature Melanie Joosten, Holly Throsby,... Read more
 

Full program for IPEd National Editors Conference announced

The full program has been announced for the Institute of Professional Editors’ (IPEd) National Editors Conference, which runs from 13-15 September at the Brisbane Convention... Read more
 

 

A&U to distribute eight new Wilbur Smith titles, 34 backlist titles

Allen & Unwin will distribute eight new books and 34 backlist books by Wilbur Smith in the ANZ market, after UK agency partner Bonnier Zaffre... Read more
 

Philp wins 2017 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction

Lip magazine’s 2017 Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been presented to Alexandra Philp for her story ‘Pools 2007’. The award is open to all... Read more
 

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2017 winners announced

The 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards have been announced. A number of Australian titles were among the winners and runners-up. Special Awards Prestige Awards Joint... Read more
 

Sepetys, Smith win 2017 Carnegie, Greenaway medals; Fraillon wins Amnesty CILIP Honour

Two US children’s book creators have won the 2017 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, presented by the UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals... Read more
 

 

Barry wins second Walter Scott Prize

Sebastian Barry has won the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his novel Days Without End (Faber). This is the second time Barry... Read more
 

 

Bew’s ‘Citizen Clem’ wins Orwell Prize for Books 2017

In the UK, John Bew has won the the £3000 (A$5547) Orwell Prize for Books for Citizen Clem (Quercus), a biography of former UK Prime... Read more
 

Tracey K Smith named new US poet laureate

Tracey K Smith has been named the 22nd poet laureate of the United States, reports Publishers Weekly. Smith is the author of three books of... Read more
 

European booksellers launch geoblocking petition

The European International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) has launched a petition asking the European Council (EC) not to force booksellers to sell ebooks in different countries,... Read more
 

Rights round-up

Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world Spanish rights to Kingpin (Lili St German) to Ediciones B Mexico SA de CV. Hachette has sold rights to Stars... Read more
 

 

Bestsellers this week x

After creeping up the ranks in previous weeks, Michael Mosley’s healthy eating guide The Clever Guts Diet (S&S) has taken the top spot in this... Read more
 

Judith Brett’s ‘The Enigmatic Mr Deakin’ x

‘This excellent biography will appeal to general readers, students and anyone interested in historical biography’ … read Chris Harrington’s full review here.
 

Quote of the week x

‘If we keep doing what we do well, always looking for ways to do it better, we provide an experience that cannot be replicated by Amazon’ABA chief executive Joel Becker paraphrases Waterstones MD James Daunt, one of the keynote speakers this year’s ABA conference

 

Inaugural winners of ALIA Library Design Awards announced x

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) announced the winners of its inaugural Library Design Awards, which aim to showcase the best in contemporary library... Read more
 

ALIA celebrates copyright amendment Bill

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has celebrated a Bill amending the Copyright Act 1968 to simplify the use of copyright materials for libraries,... Read more
 

International perspectives: John Mutter and James Daunt on the book industry in the US and UK x

John Mutter, editor-in-chief of US bookselling publication Shelf Awareness, and James Daunt, MD of UK bookstore chain Waterstones and founder of Daunt Books, delivered the... Read more
 

Working Title Press distribution changes

Working Title Press (WTP) and HarperCollins Publishers Australia (HCP) announce that from 1st July 2017, distribution of WTP titles in Australia and New Zealand will move to Harper Entertainment Distribution Services [HEDS], a division of HCP.

As from 1st July, 2017, all orders for Working Title Press titles will be supplied by HEDS.

New Release Titles—August onwards

Orders for August New Release titles should be sent to UBD. These orders will be supplied by HEDS, with transfer arranged automatically from UBD to HEDS.

Booksellers who wish to receive delivery by HEDS August in-store date of Monday 24th July will need to have their order to UBD by Friday 30th June.

EDI orders can still be transmitted to UBD up until 30th June for collation and transfer to HEDS. After 1st July all EDI orders must be transmitted to HEDS. All non EDI customer orders for September and later releases are to be sent to HEDS.

Backlist Orders

All backlist orders as from 1st July are to be sent to HEDS. The flow of all EDI orders will be switched over from UBD to HEDS to facilitate this. Customers should cease using UBD’s SAN and start using HCP’s SAN which is 9000453. After the 1st July changeover, UBD will redirect customers placing phone, fax, and email orders to HEDS.

Returns

We ask booksellers to be aware of the below key cut-off dates and plan their returns accordingly, as HEDS will not accept returns for books invoiced by UBD.

Returns for books invoiced by UBD must be processed by UBD. Requests to return WTP titles must be sent to UBD by Friday 28th July.

UBD will not process any returns after Monday 14th August, so please don’t delay in sending your returns once authorised. Books received by UBD too late for processing and/or sent to UBD without an RA will be returned to the customer at the customer’s expense.

HEDS will not accept returns which were not invoiced by HEDS. These will be returned to the customer at the customer’s expense.

Contact details

HEDS – For Australian and New Zealand customers, email your orders to orders@harpercollins.com.au or call 1300-551-721 (Australian customers) or 0800-766-569 (New Zealand customers).

UBD – For Australian customers, email your orders to orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au or call 1800-338-836. For New Zealand customers, email your orders to orders@unitedbookdistributors.co.nz or call 0800-860-808.

 

Title showcase: ‘Once Upon A Hume’ by Stephen Gard

Title: Once Upon A Hume
Author: Stephen Gard
Publisher: BlueDawe Books
Price: 25
ISBN: 9780992475116

Once Upon A Hume takes the reader on a journey down the ‘Great South Road’, personality by personality, rather than place by place.

Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences from long ago, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. We start at Leppington, and take a break at Mittagong.

The first of several volumes about folks who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.

Contact details

Name: Stephen Gard
Company: The Bluedawe Group
Phone: 02 4603 0036
Email: bluedawebooks@stephengard.com.au
URL: www.stephengard.com.au

 

'Clever Guts'—the number 1 bestselling title—reprint now available

Following a hugely successful tour by author Dr Michael Mosely, The Clever Guts Diet is the number one bestselling title in Australia! A rush reprint has arrived at United Book Distributors and stock is available to order now.

ISBN 9781925596038, RRP $29.99, paperback. Simon & Schuster Australia.

 

Black Inc. congratulates Ryan O’Neill on the shortlisting of 'Their Brilliant Careers' for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Black Inc. congratulates Ryan O’Neill on the shortlisting of Their Brilliant Careers for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award. A reprint of Their Brilliant Careers is underway and stock will be available from United Book Distributors in the first week of July.

To order, contact United Book Distributors on 1800 338 836 or orders@unitedbookdistributors.com.au or contact your Penguin Random House sales representative.

Their Brilliant Careers
Ryan O’Neill
9781863958639
RRP $27.99

www.blackincbooks.com

 

UWA Publishing shortlisted for Miles Franklin award for ‘Extinctions’

NewSouth Books would like to congratulate UWA Publishing and Josephine Wilson on the shortlisting of Extinctions for this year’s Miles Franklin award. To order copies of this sublime Australian novel please contact TL Distribution on (02) 8778 9999 or orders@tldistribution.com.au.

 

Congratulations from Dennis Jones & Associates

Dennis Jones & Associates would like to congratulate Philip Salmon on his short listing for the 2017 Miles Franklin Award for Waiting, ISBN 9781922186836, $29.95 In Stock Now.

Congratulations also to all of our winning and prestigious recommendations awarded so far in 2017.

Food As Medicine, ISBN 9781925044621, $55.00 (Signs Publishing) Gold Medal Winner for the Best Book in the World in the Health and Nutrition category at the 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Seafood Everyday, ISBN 9780994341617, $34.95 (Eloise Emmett) Bronze Medal Winner in the Best Fish and Seafood category at the 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Forage, ISBN 9780646943800, $49.95 (Forage Publishing) Gold Medal Winner for the Best Book in the Charity-Fund Raising category at the 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Shanghai in 12 Dishes, ISBN 9780473379087, $24.95 (Red Pork Publishing) Award-Winning Finalist in the ‘Travel: Guides & Essays’ category of the 2017 International Book Awards

All in stock and exclusively distributed to the trade by Dennis Jones & Associates.

Reprinted stock has landed for the shortlisted title Spellbound, ISBN 9780992491727, $39.95 in the 2017 CBCA awards for The Eve Pownall Award for Information Books. Order Now.

 
 

 

 

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