The market down under
Australian titles are faring well in a market where personal development books and crime fiction are the standout trends, reports Andrea Hanke. For the fourth year in a row, the...
300 attend 2018 ABA Conference; booksellers ‘surviving and thriving’
Close to 300 booksellers, exhibitors and guest speakers attended this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference and trade show, which was held in Canberra from 17-18 June. This year, the...
2018 ABA conference: value, volume up YTD; branding, staff management discussed
Nielsen Book associate director Julie Winters presented an overview of the Australian book market at the 2018 Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference. Winters reported that the total book market is...
SWF 2018: ticket sales down but box office third-highest in festival history; Lee tops bestsellers
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) recorded 51,362 ticketed sales worth over $1.28 million—down on last year's earnings but still the third-highest box office earnings in the organisation’s history. The...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: Value and volume up; Jamie Oliver tops the bestsellers
Value and volume sales were up in both the 12-week and four-week periods leading to 23 December 2017, compared to the same periods in 2016. The volume of books sold...
Nielsen BookScan figures: value and volume up as nonfiction recovers post colouring books
Sales in the 10 weeks leading up to 9 December 2017 are up four percent in value and 3.7% in volume over the same period in 2016, reports Nielsen BookScan....
Attendance up at SPN conference; children’s books a growth area for small publishers
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) sixth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 16-18 November. With attendance up on last year, SPN general manager Matthia...
NZ book sales up in 2015
New Zealand’s book sales are up in volume and value in the first half of 2015, according to new figures released by Nielsen Book. New Zealand’s total market for the...
Delivering the goods: A look at the book industry’s supply chain
Getting a book into a reader’s hands has never been quicker, but there is still plenty of room for improvement in the book industry’s supply chain, writes Gary Copeland.Those who...
Nielsen study finds teens lag adults in ebook uptake
In the US, teen readers aged 13-17 are lagging behind adults when it comes to their uptake of ebooks, according to a study from Nielsen. The study found 20% of teens are purchasing...
Reilly, Ponting top Australian bestsellers charts 2013-14
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...
Fox, Griffiths and Marsden top Australian children’s bestsellers charts 2013-14
For the fourth year in a row, books by Mem Fox, Andy Griffiths and John Marsden have topped the Australian picture book, children’s fiction and YA bestsellers charts, according to...
Nikolic to join Nielsen NZ
Nevena Nikolic has been appointed as national manager for Nielsen Book Services in New Zealand. Nikolic, who begins in the role on 28 January, replaces former national manager David Dromer,...
Nikolic to join Nielsen NZ
Nevena Nikolic has been appointed as national manager for Nielsen Book Services in New Zealand, replacing David Dromer, who resigned from the company at the end of 2013. Nikolic joins...
Nielsen to acquire commerce, business intelligence services from R R Bowker
Nielsen has signed an agreement to acquire a range of commerce and business intelligence services in the US and UK from R R Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker....
Nielsen to acquire commerce, business intelligence services from R R Bowker
Nielsen has signed an agreement to acquire a range of commerce and business intelligence services from R R Bowker, parent company of Books+Publishing owner Thorpe-Bowker. The two companies said in...
Nielsen launches BookScan in Brazil
Nielsen BookScan has begun tracking print book sales in Brazil. Nielsen launched its Brazil service earlier this month and expects to measure sales volume of more than 600,000 books valued...
Leading Edge Books Conference 2013
Eighty booksellers from around 50 bookshops attended this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference, which was held at the Hilton Adelaide from 14-16 June. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, LEB shared its...
Symonds to take on expanded role for Nielsen Book; Meechan to retire
General manager of Nielsen Book Australia Shaun Symonds will take on an expanded role in September, adding responsibility for Nielsen Book New Zealand to his current position. Symonds will start in...
Changes at Nielsen Book
General manager of Nielsen Book in Australia Shaun Symonds as been appointed as general manager of Nielsen Book Australia and New Zealand and will start in the new role in September....