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...
ADS, Ingram take precautions in response to Covid-19
Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) and Ingram have assured customers they remain open and operational following various mandated shutdowns across the country. In a letter to customers yesterday, ADS said it...
Germany’s largest wholesaler files for bankruptcy
Germany’s largest book wholesaler and distributor, KNV, has filed for bankruptcy, reports Publishers Weekly. On Thursday, 14 February, the managing directors of companies within the KNV Group filed for bankruptcy,...
HEDS hires 20 new warehouse staff to address delays
Australian booksellers have been experiencing slower than usual order turnaround times from HarperCollins Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS), as the Christmas retailing period gets underway. In an email dated 27 November,...
Booktopia to offer distribution services
Australian retailer Booktopia has announced it will be the exclusive Australian distributor for German-based Thieme Medical Publishers, under a new distribution division. The Australian retailer set up Booktopia Publisher Services...
Lonely Planet to close warehouse; distribution moving to UBD
Lonely Planet has announced it will close its Melbourne warehouse, based in Bentleigh, at the end of August this year, making seven permanent employees redundant. The publisher will outsource all...
Penguin Random House Canada distribution to merge
Distribution for Penguin Canada books will move from Pearson Canada’s warehouse in Newmarket, Ontario, to Random House’s Canada warehouses, reports Publishers Weekly. The move is expected to take place in...
Inbooks to close in October
Sydney-based library supplier James Bennett has announced that its Inbooks division will close at the end of October.Inbooks is a distributor of international scholarly and academic publishers to the trade,...
Penguin Random House to close two US warehouses
Penguin Random House US will consolidate its distribution from February 2015, with the publisher announcing this week that it will close two of its four warehouses, reports Publishers Weekly. The...
Penguin to distribute Fremantle titles in WA
Fremantle Press has announced that Penguin Books will distribute its titles in Western Australia from May 2014.The publisher said in a statement that the move ‘is designed to streamline the...
Taylor & Francis distribution to move to TLD
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that its books distribution will move from Macmillan Distribution Services (MDS) to TL Distribution (TLD) at the end of March. The announcement follows the news...
HarperCollins to relocate NZ distribution to Australia
HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand has announced that it will relocate its New Zealand distribution to its Australian facilities in Moss Vale, New South Wales. HarperCollins said in a statement...
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...
ABG moves distribution, sales to Woodslane
The Australian Book Group (ABG) has moved its distribution to Woodslane and its sales representation will make the same move in March. ABG said in a statement that it has...
Murdoch Books distribution to move to UBD
Murdoch Books has announced that distribution of its titles will move from Harper Entertainment Distribution Services (HEDS) to United Book Distributors (UBD) in January. The move follows the acquisition of...
Johnson joins BICC
Simon & Schuster Australia managing director Lou Johnson has joined the Federal Government’s Book Industry Collaboration Council (BICC). Johnson replaces Penguin Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne on the council and as...
Independent Distribution Solutions no longer trading
Independent Distribution Solutions (IDS), a distribution arm of Christian book and music distributor CMCA, finished trading at the beginning of this year. Former IDS director and CMCA board member John...
Coyne resigns from BICC; expert reference groups established
Penguin Australia CEO Gabrielle Coyne has stepped down from her position on the Federal Government’s Book Industry Collaborative Council (BICC). A spokesperson for the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research...
HarperCollins US signs agreement with RR Donnelly to ‘create one centralised warehouse’
In the US, HarperCollins has signed an agreement with distributor RR Donnelly that ‘will create one centralised warehouse that will serve as the distribution site for all [HarperCollins US] titles,’...