Hachette announces $2.5m investment in ADS capacity
Hachette Australia has announced it is making a 'major infrastructure investment' of $2.5 million in its distribution business Alliance Distribution Services (ADS), based in Tuggerah, New South Wales. ADS director...
Thames & Hudson distribution to move to ADS
Thames & Hudson Australia has announced that distribution of its titles and those of its sales agencies will move from Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) to Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) from...
Macmillan to close MDS
Macmillan Australia has announced that it will close Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) by the end of March 2014. Macmillan managing director Ross Gibb told Books+Publishing that as a result of...
Murdoch Books distribution to move from ADS to HarperCollins
Murdoch Books has announced this week that HarperCollins Publishers has been appointed to manage all warehousing and distribution functions for the publisher in Australia and New Zealand. The new arrangement,...
In brief
Australian Children's Literature Alliance website launchedThe Australian Children's Literature Alliance (ACLA) has launched its website at http://www.acla.org.au/. The site features an events calendar of upcoming children's book events, as well as...
Hachette confirms amicable ADS buy-out
Further to last week's announcement that Allen & Unwin will move its distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to the Pearson-owned United Book Distributors (UBD), Hachette Livre Australia has confirmed...
A&U to leave ADS
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will leave Alliance Distribution Services from 1 January 2009 and move its distribution to the Pearson-owned United Book Distributors.'ADS has been voted Distributor...
HP7 ‘biggest-selling single book ever’
With the global release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows now successfully achieved, it seems clear the book is breaking sales records around the world, although Australia will have...