Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

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Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Emit (whose parents turned back time to name him) is surrounded by busyness. Dad is too busy to read stories, Mum is too busy to play games and Emit’s brother...

Industry advice for authors

Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Independent Publishing is an online resource and a free monthly newsletter publication filled with news and tips for independent publishers, independent authors, hybrid authors and content creators. Independent Publishing newsletter contains:...

News on the rights market for Australian books

Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Think Australian is a free newsletter about the Australian book industry aimed at an international audience of publishers, editors, rights agents, subagents and other industry professionals. The newsletter is published ahead...

Marketing manager, Sydney

Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Walker Books Australia Pty Ltd Walker Books Australia is an award-winning publishing house. For nearly thirty years, we have published outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages. We have...

Bookseller, Melbourne

Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Books at Manic Books at Manic is a leading independent distributor of art, architecture and design books. We also distribute well designed kids’ books and stationery and books in some...

Publishing project officer, Sydney

Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Sydney University Press Sydney University Press is a not-for-profit, scholarly publisher of research-based books that engage, inspire and stimulate debate. In this role you will work across a range of...

Marketing campaigns manager, Melbourne

Wednesday, 22 February 2023
We’re looking for a new marketing campaigns manager at an exciting time of growth in our business. As marketing campaigns manager you’ll be responsible for creating and delivering dynamic book...

Inventory & logistics coordinator, Melbourne

Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Hardie Grant Publishing Hardie Grant Publishing is looking for a commercially-minded inventory & logistics coordinator to join the publishing services team. In this role you will deliver timely and profitable...

We love books for kids

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Coming to you from a country that has seen sales of children's books boom in recent years, we are so pleased to share news and new books from the world...

Who’s at Bologna? Come meet them at the party!

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Publishers attending the Bologna book fair in person on the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Collective Stand are Allen & Unwin, Berbay Publishing, CSIRO Publishing, Five Mile, Hardie Grant Children's...

2022 Australian Market Overview

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The Australian book market is trading well above the last pre-Covid year of 2019 after three consecutive years of growth. Sales of books in Australia grew 7.2% last year to...

First Nations YA to look out for

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
A debut young adult title by Lystra Rose, a descendant of the Guugu Yimithirr, Birri Gubba, Erub and Scottish nations, took out the prestigious $25,000 Indigenous writing prize in the...

Junior and middle-grade fiction offerings

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
In junior fiction on offer at Bologna this year, Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has Monsties: The Lost Bunny (Zanni Louise & Kyla May) featuring Orla, Pearl, Mig, Boo and Oops—five...

Pitching pictures at Bologna

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Experiences in nature fill many of the picture books on offer from Australian publishers at Bologna this year. Thank you rain! (Sally Morgan & Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, Magabala Books) is...

Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions

A photo of Maxine Beneba Clarke. She stand in front of a bookshelf. Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Among the latest children's and YA acquisitions by Australian publishers: Children's Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has acquired two books by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Releasing in June 2023, It’s the...

Australian titles with international appeal

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Discover the latest rights opportunities from Australian publishers and literary agents participating in the Australian Collective Stand at Bologna. View the Stand Catalogue here, featuring over 50 children’s and YA...

Award winners

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Lystra Rose has won the $25,000 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her YA debut novel The Upwelling (Hachette Australia), while We Who Hunt the Hollow (Kate Murray, HGCP)...

Spotlight on Annabel Barker

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The launch of your own agency was quickly followed by the pandemic; how did that affect what you were pitching and how you were making deals? Like others, I had...

Spotlight on Jess Racklyeft

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has been awarded a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarship to attend this year’s Bologna book fair. Here she...

Australian creators recommend

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian creators tell us the most recent book they have read and loved, and why.   Illustrator and author Jess Racklyeft will attend this year's Bologna Book Fair as the...

Acquisitions help boost Lagardère Publishing sales

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Hachette parent company Lagardère Publishing’s revenue grew 5.8% in 2022 to €2.75 billion (A$4.2b), though earnings fell 14% to €302 million (A$467m), reports Publishers Weekly. The revenue growth was attributed...

McFarlane, Serong longlisted for 2023 Walter Scott Prize

Monday, 20 February 2023
Two Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK’s £25,000 (A$43,750) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Fiona McFarlane was longlisted for her second novel The Sun Walks Down (A&U),...