Dymocks Burwood named ‘Store of the Year’ at national conference
The Dymocks store in Burwood, NSW, was named Store of the Year at the 2011 Dymocks national conference, held this week. Simon & Schuster received the Publisher of the Year...
Collins Griffith named ‘Franchisee of the Year’ at national conference
Collins Booksellers held its national conference in Byron Bay between 7 and 9 August, with approximately 60 members of the Collins group in attendance. Collins Booksellers Griffith, NSW, was presented...
More than 300 expected to attend ABA conference
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has confirmed that in excess of 300 members of the Australian bookselling community are expected to attend this year's ABA conference, to be held in...
Registrations open for 2011 National Editors Conference
The NSW Society of Editors announced last week that registrations have opened for the 2011 National Editors Conference, 'New Horizons for Editing and Publishing'. The conference, which will run from...
A&U named publisher of the year at 2011 Leading Edge Books conference
Allen & Unwin has been voted publisher of the year by independent booksellers across the country for the second year in a row. The publisher received the honour at the...
Change of date, venue for 2011 Booksellers NZ conference
Booksellers New Zealand has announced that the date and venue for the Association's 2011 conference have changed. This year's conference will now be held at Te Papa in Wellington between...
2011 Tools of Change New York: Atwood, Bridle highlights
Publishing consultant Alex Adsett writes: The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference was held in New York last week, and was an exciting meeting of international publishing innovators to...
NZ Booksellers conference: Nielsen figures, Book Month to move to March
The Booksellers NZ annual conference, held in Auckland from 29 to 30 August was covered in some detail in the Booksellers NZ newsletter The Read. ‘The feedback we have received...
Dymocks national conference
Dymocks welcomed representives of 70 stores and a total of 200 delegates to its national conference, which ran from 1 to 4 August at the Grand Chancellor in Hobart.Dymocks CEO...
Collins Werribee named ‘franchisee of the year’ at national conference
This year's Collins Booksellers National Conference was held at the Marriot Hotel in Melbourne, earlier this week from 14-16 March. The key themes of the conference, which was attended by 60 franchisees, included 'business...
In brief
Leading Edge ConferenceThe Leading Edge Books National Conference will be held this weekend, 6-8 March, in Hobart. Over 80 independent booksellers will be attending, and many publishers and authors will...
In brief
Australia Post bans three Popular Penguin titlesAustralia Post has banned the sale of Popular Penguin titles Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov), The History of S-xuality (Michel Foucault) and Delta of Venus (Anais Nin) at its...
Paine manager of the year, A&U North Adelaide store of the year at REDgroup annual conference
REDgroup retail held its annual conference last week from 7 to 11 September, at Shed 14, in Melbourne's Docklands. ‘This was the first time that all the REDgroup retail brands had come together as one team, in...
NZ awards galore
The Sunday night of the recent Booksellers New Zealand conference saw the Penguin NZ-sponsored conference dinner and industry awards, held in Wellington's impressively restored Town Hall, which was decked out...
Booksellers NZ conference
The 87th annual Booksellers New Zealand conference was held in Wellington on Sunday and Monday. While the general feeling in the NZ trade is that times are tough--one industry veteran...
Joint Collins/Book City conference ‘a major success’
The first joint annual conference for Collins Booksellers and Book City franchisees was held at Palm Cove in Queensland late last month.‘A full business-oriented program for attendees from 51 stores...
Winton a hit at 2008 Leading Edge conference
The 2008 Leading Edge Books conference, held in Alice Springs from 7 to 10 March, attracted ‘about 150' delegates from around Australia, as well as representatives from most Australian publishing...
Dymocks Claremont and ABC Chermside named ABC shop and centre of the year at ABC conference
ABC Commercial hostsed its annual ABC Retail Conference in Sydney from 24 to 26 September. The three-day conference was attended by 160 delegates, including ABC Shop and Centre managers and...
Formal accreditation for editors a step closer?
The forthcoming Institute of Professional Editors National Conference, to be held in Hobart from 9 to 12 May, will include a presentation on the proposal for a national organisation of...