Spotify reports 25% of Premium users ‘engaging’ with audiobooks
18 April 2024
Data released by Spotify shows that 25% of the platform’s Premium users are ‘engaging’ with its audiobooks offering, reports the Bookseller. Spotify said users aged 18 to 34 make up...
Remaining big five publishers join PRH in Iowa lawsuit
17 April 2024
In the US, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster, along with Sourcebooks, have joined Penguin Random House (PRH) as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Iowa to block the book...
Local authors on Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 shortlist
17 April 2024
Three Aotearoa New Zealand authors and one Australian writer are among the finalists for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The authors shortlisted for the Pacific region are: M Donato...
Hazard to leave Hachette, BookPeople conference program, translators losing work to AI
17 April 2024
Headlining this week's news, Hachette Australia and New Zealand announced that group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’. In other local news, BookPeople has...
BookPeople 2024 Book of the Year shortlists announced
17 April 2024
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its Book of the Year awards. The shortlists for each category are: Adult fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) Green Dot (Madeleine Gray,...
Nominate your staff for the publishing industry’s Rising Star award!
17 April 2024
Nominations close soon for the Australian publishing industry’s Rising Star award, which recognises and celebrates emerging talent in trade, educational and scholarly publishing. If you have a team member demonstrating...
Shop manager, Melbourne
17 April 2024
Readings Due to an upcoming retirement, Readings is looking for a passionate Shop Manager to work on a full-time, permanent basis. The incumbent is responsible for all aspects of the...
Publishing assistant, Sydney
17 April 2024
Currency Press Currency Press, Australia’s performing arts publisher, is seeking a Publishing Assistant to join our small and busy team at our office in Surry Hills. Working three days a...
The Leaves
17 April 2024
When his mother dies, Luke’s childhood is severed into a ‘before’ and ‘after’ and a chain of catastrophic events is unleashed that alters the course of his life. Navigating the...
HR business partner, Sydney
17 April 2024
Simon & Schuster Welcome to Simon & Schuster Australia, one of Australia’s fastest growing publishers bringing an extensive range of locally published and international books to readers across Australia and...
Sales representative (NSW), Sydney
17 April 2024
Exisle Publishing Exisle Publishing is looking for a Sydney-based sales representative to sell our list of award-winning, locally authored books to our customers, including bookstores. If you are curious, diligent,...
Kirsty Wilson launches freelance publicity business
17 April 2024
Kirsty Wilson, who has previously managed successful publicity, marketing, and sales campaigns at Text and UQP, has established a freelance publicity business. As demonstrated by her campaign for Garry Disher’s...
Ondaatje Prize 2024 longlist
16 April 2024
The longlist for this year’s £10,000 (A$19,321) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Britannias: An island quest (Alice Albinia, Allen Lane) Falling...
A third of translators report losing work due to AI
15 April 2024
In the UK, a survey of members of the Society of Authors (SoA) has found a quarter of illustrators (26%) and over a third of translators (36%) have lost work due...
BookPeople 2024 conference program announced
11 April 2024
BookPeople has announced the program for its 100th anniversary conference and trade exhibition, to be held at Pullman Melbourne on the Park on 14 to 17 June. Yuwaalaraay storyteller and...
BookPeople Book of the Year longlists announced
11 April 2024
BookPeople has announced the longlists for its Book of the Year awards. The longlists for each category are: Adult fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) Green Dot...
Catton shortlisted for 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
10 April 2024
Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,245). The full list of shortlisted titles includes: Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton, Granta) Daughter (Claudia...
International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced
10 April 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$95,600), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize, chosen from a longlist of 13 announced...
ARA Historical Novel Prize increases prize pool to $150,000
10 April 2024
The ARA Historical Novel Prize this year will have a prize pool of $150,000, with the winner of the adult category to receive $100,000—making this 'the richest individual literary prize...
Huia wins 2024 Bologna Prize, Oceania region
10 April 2024
Huia Publishers, based in Aotearoa New Zealand, is the 2024 Oceania winner of the Bologna Prize (BOP) for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Māori-owned independent publisher has...
ILF wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2024
10 April 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has won the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), worth five million Swedish kronor (A$710,000). The ILF was announced as the winner at a live...
2024 Roly Sussex Short Story Competition open for entries
10 April 2024
ESU Roly Sussex Short Story Competition 1 April - 6 September 2024 Open Division: 1st Prize $7500/ 2nd Prize $1500 Secondary School: 1st Prize $1000/ 2nd Prize $500 For further...
Shop manager, Melbourne
10 April 2024
Readings Due to a upcoming retirement, Readings is looking for a passionate Shop Manager to work on a full-time, permanent basis. The incumbent is responsible for all aspects of the...
Imperial Harvest
10 April 2024
Imperial Harvest is a timely book that speaks to the universal lessons of war. This fiction by bestselling Australian author Bruce Pascoe is set in 13th century Mongolia and addresses...
Aotearoa New Zealand publishers represented at Bologna
9 April 2024
Eight publishers are exhibiting at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand collective stand. The stand will be managed by Publishers Association of New Zealand...
Puffin UK to launch graphic novel imprint
9 April 2024
In the UK, Penguin Random House has revealed the logo and publishing program of its new graphic novel imprint, Puffin Graphics, reports the Bookseller. The new imprint is aimed at...
Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; business, publisher shortlists announced
4 April 2024
Bookseller Fiona Stager and children’s author and publisher Jane Godwin will be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Hall of Fame at the 2024 ABIAs ceremony on 9...
China: book market up 4.72%; e-commerce, short-video platforms drive growth
4 April 2024
The value of the book market in China increased by 4.72% in 2023, with sales revenue at list price of 91.2 billion yuan (A$19.3 billion), according to Beijing OpenBook, reports...
Stella Prize 2024 shortlist announced
4 April 2024
The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo) Feast (Emily O’Grady, A&U) Abandon Every Hope: Essays for...
Windham-Campbell Prizes 2024 recipients announced
3 April 2024
In the US, the recipients of the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$175,000 (A$268,500) each, have been announced. For fiction, the prize recognised Irish author Deirdre Madden, whose work—including Molly Fox’s Birthday...
