US print book sales up 8.9% in 2021
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
In the US, print book sales were up 8.9% in 2021 compared to 2020, according to NPD BookScan data, reports Publishers Weekly. A total of 825.7 million print book were...
ACCC lodges case against Booktopia
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has lodged a case with the Federal Court against Booktopia, alleging the online bookseller made ‘false or misleading representations to consumers about their...
Latest RISE and Australia Council funding recipients
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
The federal government announced the sixth batch of Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) fund recipients in late December 2021. Among those sharing in more than $19.5 million funding...
McPherson and Green recipients of 2021 Magabala fellowship
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Magabala Books has announced Sue McPherson and Charmaine Papertalk Green as the recipients of the 2021 mid-career Fellowship. McPherson and Green each receive $10,000 to work on a current manuscript....
Vivendi confirms Lagardère takeover bid
Monday, 10 January 2022
In December, French media company Vivendi completed its purchase of Amber Capital's 17.5% stake in Hachette parent company Lagardère group, bringing its share to 45.1%, reports Publishers Weekly. Under French laws,...
Aung Thin awarded $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship 2021
Monday, 10 January 2022
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced Michelle Aung Thin as the winner of the 2021 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for her manuscript 'The Japanese Photographer'. Aung Thin receives $20,000....
PMLA 2021 winners announced
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
The winners of the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) have been announced. Selected from shortlists announced in October, the winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Labyrinth (Amanda Lohrey,...
Lohrey wins 2021 Voss Literary Prize
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Amanda Lohrey has won the 2021 Voss Literary Prize for her novel The Labyrinth (Text). Lohrey, whose book was chosen from a shortlist of five, receives $5000. This year’s judges...
Final ‘B+P Daily’ for 2021
Friday, 10 December 2021
This issue of the Books+Publishing Daily is the last for 2021. The Daily will return on Monday, 10 January 2022. The Books+Publishing team wishes our readers all the best for the holiday...
Shortlist for $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship announced
Friday, 10 December 2021
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the shortlist for the $20,000 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship. The annual scholarship is offered to an Australian author ‘to provide them with valuable...
Authors, literary orgs among latest Cultural Fund recipients
Friday, 10 December 2021
The Copyright Agency has announced the 22 successful recipients of a total $715,522 in funding from its Cultural Fund, as well as the five writer and visual artist recipients of...
UK supply chain challenges ‘most extreme’ seen: Hachette CEO
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Hachette UK CEO David Shelley has warned ongoing supply chain problems are causing the ‘most extreme’ challenges he’s seen in his career, reports the Bookseller. In his annual letter to...
Hardy wins 2021 Children’s Peace Literature Award
Thursday, 9 December 2021
How to Write the Soundtrack to Your Life by Fiona Hardy (Affirm) is the winner of the 2021 Children's Peace Literature Award. Hardy's book was chosen by a judging panel...
Last WBN for 2021
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
This is the last Weekly Book Newsletter (WBN) for 2021. The first WBN for 2022 will be published Wednesday, 12 January. The final Books+Publishing Daily for the year will be...
Christmas closing dates 2021
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. (more…)
Paterson to lead Atlantic Books Australia, VPLAs shortlists
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Pan Macmillan publishing director Cate Paterson is leaving the company to lead Atlantic Book Australia, a new division of Allen & Unwin. In other moves news, Louise Adler will leave...
US ed publishers sue Shopify over alleged selling of pirated material
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In the US, educational publishers have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for Eastern Virginia accusing ecommerce platform Shopify of selling pirated material, reports Goodereader. Pearson Education, Macmillan...
Upcoming change of distribution for Head of Zeus: order and returns cut-off dates
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Following the recent purchase of Head of Zeus by Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury will take over distribution of Head of Zeus (HoZ) titles in Australia and New Zealand from 1st February 2022.We...
New creative direction to celebrate 40 years of Tim Winton’s writing
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
To celebrate 40 years of Tim Winton’s publishing career, Penguin Random House Australia has announced plans to re-release 18 of his titles—from the earliest novels and collections of stories and...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Wonju’s Tudeukgol Bookshop
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. In the...
Indie Book Awards 2022 longlists announced
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Leading Edge Books has announced the longlists for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction After Story (Larissa Behrendt, UQP) The Good Wife of...
Perlroth wins FT and McKinsey Book of the Year, Keefe donates £10k over sponsor’s actions
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
In the UK, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The cyber weapons arms race (Nicole Perlroth, Bloomsbury) has won the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey Book of...
VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
The shortlists for the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted and highly commended works in each category are: Fiction After Story (Larissa Behrendt, UQP) Bodies of...
Aitken wins 2021 Patrick White Award
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Poet Adam Aitken is the winner of this year’s $15,000 Patrick White Award. Aitken is the author of several books of poetry including Archipelago (Vagabond Press), shortlisted in 2018 for...
Kars wins Cundill History Prize for Blood on the River
Monday, 6 December 2021
Marjoleine Kars has won the US$75,000 (A$107,100) 2021 Cundill History Prize for Blood on the River: A chronicle of mutiny and freedom on the wild coast, reports the Bookseller. For Blood on...
The Next Chapter 2022 recipients announced
Friday, 3 December 2021
The Wheeler Centre has announced the recipients of the 2021 Next Chapter grants for developing writers, worth $15,000 each. The 10 recipients are: Jumaana Abdu Jose da Costa Josie/Jocelyn Deane...
McCartney wins Waterstones Book of the Year for ‘The Lyrics’
Friday, 3 December 2021
In the UK, Waterstones has named Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Allen Lane) its Book of the Year for 2021, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones MD James Daunt said,...
Distribution of Sebold memoir halted after man jailed for her rape exonerated
Thursday, 2 December 2021
The UK and US publishers of Alice Sebold’s bestselling memoir Lucky (Picador) have stopped the book’s distribution following the author’s apology to the man who was last week exonerated of...
McLean donates $1 million to Stella Prize
Thursday, 2 December 2021
Sydney-based philanthropist Paula McLean, a long-time patron of the Stella Prize, has committed a gift of up to $1 million to the prize’s Stella Forever Fund, which aims to secure...
Send us your Christmas closing dates
Wednesday, 1 December 2021
To be included in Books+Publishing's annual list of publishers' and distributors' trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 7 December....
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