Campus publishing, bookselling awards announced
The winners of the 2014 Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) Awards for campus publishers and the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Awards for campus booksellers have been announced.The ACBA Tertiary Supplier...
Co-op to take over Curtin University bookshop
The Co-op campus bookshop has announced it will take over the main bookshop and retail outlet at Curtin University in Western Australia. The bookshop was previously owned and run by...
Swinburne Bookshop Co-op Prahran closes
The Swinburne Bookshop Co-op in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran has closed. All stock from the store has been moved to the bookshop at the Swinburne University campus in Hawthorn, where new shelving is...
Swinburne Prahran campus library to close
The library at Swinburne University’s Prahran campus in Melbourne is due to close as the campus prepares to shut down. The Prahran campus library is will close on 20 December. The library said in a statement...
RMIT to open pop-up bookshops; plans underway for permanent shops
RMIT University in Melbourne will open two pop-up bookshops in June to cater for students buying their textbooks for the second semester of the university year. The university said in...
RMIT Bookshop to close
Melbourne campus bookseller RMIT Bookshop will close on 30 April. The independent business, which is owned by the Melbourne Co-operative Bookshop Group (MCGB), has operated in the Melbourne CBD for 53 years. The RMIT Bookshop outlets...
The Co-op Bookshop rebrands as The Co-op
The Co-op Bookshop has rebranded with the name The Co-op and a new logo. In a blog post, the retailer said that the rebranding ‘heralds a whole new era and...
‘High level of positivity’ at 2012 ACBA Conference; ACBA, APA Awards announced
Approximately 100 booksellers and publishers attended this year’s Australian Campus Booksellers (ACBA) Conference in Brisbane from 13-16 November. ACBA president and general manager of Vic Books in Wellington, New Zealand, Juliet...
The Co-op Book Shop expands
The Co-op Bookshop has confirmed that it has acquired the Edith Cowan University bookshops. ‘We’re absolutely delighted to soon have a presence at Edith Cowan University and we look forward...
Successul US McGraw-Hill ebook pilot program to be expanded
In the US, a pilot program run at Indiana University will be expanded to more than 25 institutions after McGraw-Hill Education, Internet2 and Courseload announced they have partnered with EDUCAUSE...
Co-op Bookshop partners with mobile phone company
Campus bookseller Co-op Bookshop has announced a new partnership with mobile phone company amaysim. The Co-op Bookshop said in a statement that the new partnership will offer Co-op members access...
Co-op relaunches at University of Canberra
The Co-op Bookshop has re-launched its store at the University of Canberra. The new store is more than double the size of the bookselling chain’s previous store on the campus...
Melb Uni Bookshop to close; Co-op Bookshop to open stores in existing locations
The University of Melbourne has announced that the Melbourne University Bookshop will close in May, and the Co-op Bookshop will operate the bookstores at the university’s Parkville campus. In an...
Co-op Bookshop launches outdoor ‘window shop’
The Co-op Bookshop has launched an outdoor 'window shop' at its Macquarie University campus which allows customers to scan pictures of textbooks with their smartphones and then purchase the books...
Quote of the week
‘While I agree with [Louise] Adler's call for more subsidies, the question remains where and how the resources should be invested. I remain somewhat unconvinced by a vision of a...
Melbourne University calls for tenders from specialist retailers for campus bookshop
The University of Melbourne has called for tenders from specialist book retailers to take over the operation of the Melbourne University Bookshop. In an email sent to all university staff...
UNSW Bookshop survey finds 56% of students prefer printed textbooks
A survey conducted by UNSW Bookshop has found that more than 50% of students prefer to purchase printed textbooks when given the choice between printed textbooks and electronic versions. Of...
Digital platform from Cengage Learning gives campus booksellers opportunity to sell ebooks
Campus booksellers are being given the opportunity to sell electronic versions of textbooks as a result of a new digital platform launched by Cengage Learning called CengageBrain. Cengage launched the...
ERA journal rankings to be removed
Responding to 'concerns within the sector' about the ranking of journals as part of the ERA (Excellent in Research for Australia) initiative, Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science...
ACBA conference: Wiley, QUT Bookshop winners in annual awards
The most pressing concern of booksellers at the 2010 Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) conference, held last week in Sydney, was the lack of a retail platform for ebooks, according...