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Scribd launches in Australia  Archive

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
US-based reading subscription service Scribd has launched in Australia. The platform, which charges $13.99 per month for unlimited access, offers access to two million ebooks and over a million audiobook...

Spotlight on new authors  Archive

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
The longlist for the Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing was announced earlier this month, and it was interesting to see that five of the 12 works on the list...

Meet literary agent Jacinta di Mase  Archive

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Jacinta di Mase is the founder and lead agent at Jacinta di Mase Management, which she established after working under ‘formidable’ agents Lyn Tranter and Jenny Darling. She spoke to...

Dalton, Pape, Bluey top Australian bestsellers 2020  Archive

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
For the second year running, Trent Dalton’s debut novel Boy Swallows Universe and Scott Pape’s guide to household finance The Barefoot Investor have come out on top as the year’s overall bestselling Australian...

Publishable launches  Archive

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Queensland Writers Centre’s Publishable Manuscript Development competition now open. Publishable is open to submissions of unpublished manuscripts from all genres and is a competition for emerging writers around the nation,...

Change for Taschen  Archive

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Publisher: Taschen ISBN prefix: 97838365 Old distributor: Books at Manic New distributor: Thames & Hudson Returns cut-off: 30 April 2021

Madden to deliver BookUp keynote  Archive

Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Social researcher Claire Madden will deliver a presentation on future Australian demographic trends as the keynote at the Australian Publisher’s Association’s BookUp conference, which will run online and in-person in...

Vucic awarded 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship  Archive

Monday, 15 March 2021
Dženana Vucic, a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor, critic and 2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, is the recipient of the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship, which ‘offers support and development to a...

Egmont rebrands as Farshore  Archive

Monday, 15 March 2021
HarperCollins standalone children’s division Egmont Books has rebranded as Farshore. The publisher said the rebrand ‘reflects the company’s mission to make every child a proud reader through a broad and...

Brexit hits UK book orders to EU  Archive

Friday, 12 March 2021
Orders from the EU for UK books are down by around 43% since the outbreak of Covid-19 and Brexit, a freight forwarding company has told the IPG International Publishing Forum,...

Penguin Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced  Archive

Penguin Literary Prize logo Friday, 12 March 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced the shortlist for the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The shortlisted writers are: Jane Carrick, for ‘So Far No Father’ Alicia Carter, for ‘Songs...

SWF 2021 program announced  Archive

Friday, 12 March 2021
The program for the 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been released. The festival, which runs from Monday, 26 April to Sunday, 2 May, will host 231 live events...

Vale Simon Player  Archive

Thursday, 11 March 2021
Simon Player, co-director of Footprint Books, has died. Player and his wife Kate O'Reilly established the Sydney-based distributor in 1999. It closed in November 2020 due to Player's health issues....

Auckland Writers Festival program announced  Archive

Auckland Writers Festival logo Thursday, 11 March 2021
The program for the 2021 Auckland Writers Festival, which runs from 11–16 May, has been announced. In-person guests include fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and his partner, singer and author Amanda...

Drury promoted at S&S  Archive

Thursday, 11 March 2021
Kay Drury has been promoted to the newly created position of national field sales manager at Simon & Schuster Australia. Drury began the position on 22 February 2021.

Change for Trigger Publishing  Archive

Thursday, 11 March 2021
Publisher: Trigger Publishing Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: Allen & Unwin Changeover date: 1 April 2021 Returns cut-off: 25 June 2021

 

 

 

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