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Hardie Grant Egmont announces price initiatives to support booksellers

Hardie Grant Egmont has announced a number of initiatives this week designed to support booksellers by addressing price concerns. The publisher said in a statement today that it has introduced a selec...

Simon & Schuster revise prices

Simon & Schuster is the latest publishing house to announce a revision of its Australian pricing schedules. Simon & Schuster managing director Lou Johnson told the Weekly Book Newsle...

CUP drops prices

Cambridge University Press (CUP) has recently dropped the prices of more than 28,000 titles. The price drops follow a pricing review of more than 30,000 of the publisher's titles, with CUP reporting t...

CUP records eighth year of successive growth; sales up 5% for Australia and NZ

Cambridge University Press (CUP) has recorded sales growth for the eighth successive year, announcing overall international sales growth of 11.5% in books and journals for the year to 30 April 2010. T...

Thames & Hudson announces price changes

Thames & Hudson Australia has announced this week that it will introduce 'significant changes to the pricing of all imported books'. The publisher said in a statement that 'the changes affect all ...

CUP launches digital distribution platform

Cambridge University Press has launched a digital content platform, University Publishing Online, which will offer 'a new way for libraries and schools to acquire content from academic publishers.'

'E-reserves' copyright case goes to court in the US

A landmark copyright case between Cambridge University Press and Georgia State University over the legality of 'e-reserves' is about to go to court in the US.

Around the World

Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Amazon.co.uk introduces agency pricing with Hachette, HarperCollins and PenguinGerman bookseller lau...

CUP announces 11.5% increase in sales of books and journals

Cambridge University Press has reported its eighth successive year of growth, with the publisher recording an increase in book and journal sales of 11.5% for the year ending 30 April 2010. Total reven...

CUP to place thousands of ebooks online

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is placing thousands of ebooks online, available for Australian institutions in March.  The Cambridge Books Online (CBO) system will initially hold around 6000 ti...
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