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Macquarie University has released a new report on how Australian publishers are implementing innovative measures in response to competition from offshore retailers, entertainment entities such... Read more
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The Stella Prize has announced that its executive director, Aviva Tuffield, will resign from the role, and will step down in May this year following... Read more
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Mark Scott AO has been appointed chair of the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) board, beginning on 15 February. Scott, who joined the SWF board in... Read more
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Pan Macmillan Australia has announced it will publish a new ‘Treehouse’ short story by creators Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, called Terry’s Dumb Dot Story.... Read more
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The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the UK Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) have agreed on a deal to give APA members access to content from... Read more
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Australian author Holly Ringland’s forthcoming debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (HarperCollins), has sold into 19 territories. Ringland’s debut is a coming-of-age story... Read more
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Australian romance publisher Mills & Boon has launched a new range of novels, DARE, which the publisher describes as its ‘most explicit series yet’. The... Read more
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Australian science-fiction and fantasy publisher Twelfth Planet Press is launching a novella series. The series will launch with Stephanie Gunn’s novella Icefall, a ‘gripping story... Read more
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The finalists for the 2017 Aurealis Awards, presented for science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia, have been announced. Judging coordinator Tehani Croft said she... Read more
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Australian illustrator Jane Tanner has been longlisted for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal for her work on the picture book Storm Whale (written by Sarah... Read more
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Scribble has acquired world rights to a new picture book collaboration by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys, the creators of The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella. Bell... Read more
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Five Melbourne literary programmers will have the opportunity to visit Edinburgh in August this year, as part of a new exchange program between the Melbourne... Read more
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Lost in Books, a specialist multilingual children’s bookshop in Sydney’s western suburbs, is launching a new annual festival to highlight music, storytelling and ideas in... Read more
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Creative Victoria has announced new funding opportunities under its Diversity and Inclusion Program to ‘address barriers to participation by underrepresented groups in Victoria’s creative industries’.... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poets are: Eileen Chong (Sydney) Katherine Healy... Read more
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The shortlist for the 2017 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Guarded by Birds’... Read more
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The Booker Prize Foundation has announced the launch of a special one-off award to mark the 50th anniversary of the prize. The Golden Man Booker... Read more
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In the US, far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has withdrawn his lawsuit against Simon & Schuster (S&S), reports the Guardian. In documents filed in New York... Read more
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Simon & Schuster has recorded global sales of US$830 million (A$1.05 billion) in 2017, up eight percent from the previous year, report Publishers Weekly. Parent... Read more
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Preliminary estimates from the US Census Bureau indicate bookstore sales in the US dropped 3.6% in 2017 compared to 2016, reports Publishers Weekly. Sales in... Read more
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In the US, Amazon is cutting several hundred jobs at its Seattle headquarters, focused mainly on its established consumer retail business, reports the Seattle Times.... Read more
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UK book wholesaler and distributor Connect Books has been sold to private equity firm Aurelius for £6 million ($A10.6 million), which is nearly half of... Read more
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Sales Fiction: Allen & Unwin has sold film rights to The Twentieth Man (Tony Jones). Fremantle Press has sold Italian rights to The Hope Fault... Read more
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The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wiley) remains on top of a familiar overall top 10 this week, with nine of last week’s top 10 bestsellers... Read more
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‘The Ruin is as much a morality tale as it is an incendiary page-turner. This superior, haunting novel of murder, deception and ethical dilemma is... Read more
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‘We, as publishers, have not done a great job going digital. We’ve tried. We’ve tried enhanced or enriched ebooks—didn’t work. We’ve tried apps, websites with our content—we have one or two successes among a hundred failures. I’m talking about the entire industry.’ —Hachette Livre chief executive Arnaud Nourry reflects on the past and future of digital publishing in an interview with Indian media outlet Scroll.in.
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Muriel Rose Craddock has died, aged 105. Craddock was a well-respected antiquarian bookseller who established Kay Craddock – Antiquarian Bookseller in the Melbourne CBD, and... Read more
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Founder and publisher of British publisher Souvenir Press Ernest Hecht has died, aged 88. As a child, Hecht arrived in England on the Kindertransport before... Read more
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Concept plans for the ‘long-awaited’ Gosford Regional Library have been released, reports the Daily Telegraph. Community residents are being asked to consider the two concept... Read more
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In the UK, Taylor & Francis has reversed its decision to charge extra for older journal material after more than 110 libraries in the UK... Read more
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This year’s American Booksellers Association Winter Institute conference in Memphis was the largest gathering to date: 680 booksellers from around the world were joined by... Read more
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Nielsen Book has announced the retirement of Reno Galea, who has been the company’s account manager for retailers since 2010. Galea has worked with large... Read more
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Editors NSW is hosting a workshop designed to help editors practise for and navigate the logistics of the national accreditation exam, created by Institute of... Read more
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Editors NSW is hosting a workshop designed for those with a basic understanding of copyediting conventions, some editing experience or basic training in editorial skills.... Read more
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The NSW branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) will host a launch event to celebrate the announcement of the CBCA Notable books.... Read more
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Registrations are open for the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Victorian state conference. ‘New Ways with Literature’ is the theme of this year’s conference,... Read more
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Registration are open for the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) New South Wales Branch’s professional development conference, called ‘Anticipate! Appreciate! Applaud!’ The conference will... Read more
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Collins Booksellers Bacchus Marsh has a full shop fitout available for $20,000. High quality, and still in very good condition. Please contact via email for photos and further details. Available now! You won’t believe the value.
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Lonely Planet will be conducting its annual stocktake on Friday 23 February.
Orders placed by 12 noon on Thursday 22nd will be dispatched prior to the warehouse closing. Regular warehouse operations will resume on Monday 26 February.
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From 5 March 2018, sales and distribution of Rough Guides will move from from DK and UBD to Woodsland ANZ.
Authorised returns relating to orders placed with UBD should be sent to UBD prior to 31 March, following that date UBD will be unable to accept returned books.
For order enquires following 5 March, please contact Woodslane Customer Service on +612 8445 2300.
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The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the women he loved, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, has sold over 10,000 copies since publication, achieving #4 overall and #2 adult fiction positions in its second week of publication. The first reprint is fully subscribed with another reprint arriving on 2 March for immediate dispatch to retailers. To secure your stock, contact TL Distribution on orders@tldistribution.com.au or 02 8778 9999. The Bonnier Publishing Australia team, together with author Heather Morris, thank our bookselling partners for all their enthusiasm and support for this important Australian story.
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On 27 February, Pan Macmillan Australia will publish Terry’s Dumb Dot Story, a new ‘Treehouse’ short story by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.
It will retail for $2.00 (inc GST) in Australia and New Zealand, and the full RRP amount for every copy invoiced (ex GST) will be donated to the following Australian children’s charities: the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (of which Andy is a Lifetime Ambassador), Dymocks Children’s Charities, Australian Literacy & Numeracy Foundation, Save the Children, as well as Oxfam and the KidsCan Charitable Trust in New Zealand.
We are delighted to acknowledge that this has been made possible by the donation of content, time and services from Andy and Terry, ADS and McPherson’s Printing Group.
We would also like to thank the retailers who have joined all of us to support children’s charities with a focus on literacy. We are expecting the total amount raised to exceed $120,000.
‘Terry’s Dumb Dot Story is a 64-page mini-Treehouse adventure in which illustrator Terry takes over the storytelling duties with (predictably!) disastrous results until Andy steps in to save the day … and only makes things worse,’ says Griffiths. ‘Priced at only $2 it not only represents unbeatable value for fans of the Treehouse series but, as a bonus, all proceeds will go to children’s charities (so maybe letting Terry tell the story won’t turn out to have been such a bad idea after all!).’
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