Hachette accuses Amazon of delaying book deliveries
Hachette US has accused Amazon of ‘discouraging’ customers from buying its books by delaying delivery, reports Publishers Weekly. According to a New York Times report published on 8 May, Amazon is listing...
ArtsHub launches online bookshop with Bookworld
Arts website artsHub has launched an online bookshop in partnership with Bookworld. The artsHub bookshop opened to the public on 6 December, offering 200,000 titles divided into three main categories:...
Faber UK launches online store with The Book People
In the UK, Faber has launched an online store with the website The Book People, reports the Bookseller. The store, called FaberShop, sells directly to customers, and sits alongside other...
The online experience: children’s bookselling strategies
With a number of children’s bookstores now selling online, Portia Lindsay asks several booksellers what works best on the web. Buying a children’s book is often a personal and a...
‘A backwater sales channel’: PwC on the impact of social media on online retailing
In January 2013, PwC published a report called ‘Demystifying the online shopper: 10 myths of multichannel retailing’, based on its annual global survey of online shoppers. In 2012 this survey...
Online-only children’s bookshop launched
An online-only children’s bookshop has launched in Australia. The Kids’ Bookshop launched ‘softly’ in November 2012 and made its first sale a few days later, owner Graham Gill told Bookseller+Publisher. Based...
Kobo Mini, Glo available from Bookworld
Online booksellers Bookworld and Angus & Robertson are now selling two of Kobo’s new ereading devices—the Kobo Mini and the Kobo Glo. The online stores are selling the five-inch Kobo...
On the epidemic of niceness in online book culture
In an article at Slate, US writer Jacob Silverman argues that today’s online book culture has become a ‘mutual admiration society’ which discourages criticism and dissent. The writer Emma Straub...
Garth Nix on ‘the most expensive and least useful marketing tool for a book ever’
Garth Nix talks to Andrea Hanke about the tie-in game for his latest novel A Confusion of Princes, admitting to having called it ‘the most expensive and least useful marketing tool for...
Ron Abbey’s Bookhouse closes online presence
Ron Abbey's Bookhouse, which moved online in 2006, has closed. The bricks and mortar store was opened by Ron Abbey in Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, in 2000,...
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Costco to open at second Melbourne locationSpeculation in Melbourne indicates that the US retailer Costco has secured a second Victorian site ahead of a mooted Sydney location, according to Inside...
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Man Asia Literary Prize shortlist announcedThe shortlist for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced. The five books are Alfred A Yuson's The Music Child; Miguel Syjuco's Illustrado;...
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‘The Moral Demands of Affluence' wins Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics The Moral Demands of Affluence (Garrett Cullity, OUP) has won this year's Australian Catholic University Eureka Prize for...