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Surviving REDgroup crisis and not doing badly, thanks.

“To say 2011 in the book industry was tumultuous would be a gross understatement.” – Australian Booksellers President Jon Page (pictured below).

Having survived the Productivity Commission’s attempt to further open the Australian book market to international players in 2010, the last thing the Australian book trade needed in 2011 was more disruption.

The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) International Conference 2012 will be held at the Mercure Hotel, 8 Customs Street, Auckland on March 1st and 2nd and they are now taking registrations at conference@publishers.org.nz using the form attached below.

E-books, supply chain, IndieBound and the state of the industry locally and globally were among the topics covered at a two day meeting in Wellington last week.

Google has launched its ebook operation in the Australian market.

As well as being able to purchase ebooks from Google directly, Australian consumers are also able to purchase ebooks through a number of bookseller partners, including Booktopia and Dymocks. According to the Google eBooks website, Co-op Bookshop and QBD will also be retail partners 'soon'.