Change for National Book Network (NBN)
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Publisher: National Book Network (NBN) Old distributor: NewSouth Books New distributor: Footprint Books Changeover date: 27 December 2019 Returns cut-off: 31 January 2020
NewSouth Books congratulates authors and publishers on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
NewSouth Books is thrilled to congratulate authors and publishers on the PM’s Literary Awards. Meredith Lake’s The Bible in Australia (NewSouth Publishing) won the Australian history category, Paul Genoni and...
Change for Waterhouse Press
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Publisher: Waterhouse Press Old distributor: NewSouth Books (ADS) New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia (HEDS) Changeover date: 1 November 2019 Returns cut-off: 31 January 2020 Contact URL: orders@harpercollins.com.au
Change of distribution for Waterhouse Press
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Simon & Schuster Australia is pleased to announce a new sales and distribution partnership with independent publisher Waterhouse Press in Australia and New Zealand from 1 November 2019. Waterhouse Press titles...
UBD Christmas order cut-off schedule
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
With this year’s busiest trading period fast approaching, and to ensure our normal fast delivery continues to get to you prior to Christmas Day, United Book Distributors (UBD) has prepared...
Change for Wilkinson Publishing
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Publisher: Wilkinson Publishing Old distributor: Australian Fishing Network (AFN). New distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd Changeover date: 1 November 2019 Returns cut-off: 31 December 2019
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Please note that due to the Melbourne Cup holiday in Victoria on Tuesday, 5 November, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 7 November.
Chowdhury named Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced Penguin Random House audio producer Radhiah Chowdhury as the recipient of the 2019–2020 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. The fellowship will allow Chowdhury to...
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2019 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
In the UK, the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Disoriental (Négar Djavadi, trans Tina Kover, Europa Editions) Drive Your...
New APA initiative to signify Australian created books
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has begun a campaign to signify books created in Australia with a new logo. Based on the logo for joint-industry group Books Create Australia, the...
First writers announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The first writers have been announced for next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 29 February to 5 March. International guests include Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, Omani novelist and...
Winners of 2019 YABBAs announced
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Seriously Do Not Open This Book (Andy...
John Flanagan’s ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
A film based on YA adventure series ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ by Australian author John Flanagan (Random House Children’s) has received funding and is expected to begin production in 2020, reports the...
Fair Work approves PRH EBA
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The Fair Work Commission has approved Penguin Random House Australia's enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), the first union-negotiated EBA in Australian publishing history. In September, PRH delegates in the editorial and...
Create NSW makes changes to multi-year arts funding guidelines
Monday, 28 October 2019
The NSW state government has announced changes to its multi-year arts funding for small to medium independent arts organisations. Applicants for multi-year funding will no longer need to have received...
New online platform to help US indies compete with Amazon
Monday, 28 October 2019
In the US, a new website designed to help independent bookstores compete with Amazon will launch in January, reports Publishers Weekly. Backed by the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Bookshop is...
Meyer’s ‘A Superior Spectre’ shortlisted for Saltire Literary Awards
Monday, 28 October 2019
Angela Meyer’s novel A Superior Spectre (Peter Bishop) has been shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award, as part of Scotland's Saltire Literary Awards. Published in the...
Hammer wins UK Dagger award for ‘Scrublands’
Friday, 25 October 2019
Australian writer Chris Hammer has won the John Creasey Award for the best crime novel by a first-time author at the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2019 Dagger awards. Hammer's...
Wild Dingo launches Deadly Dingo imprint, scholarship for First Nations writers
Friday, 25 October 2019
Wild Dingo Press has launched a new imprint to publish work by First Nations writers and poets. The imprint, called Deadly Dingo Books, will publish ‘authentic, integral and powerful stories...
‘Girl, Woman, Other’ more than doubles lifetime sales after Booker win
Thursday, 24 October 2019
In the UK, joint Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) more than doubled its lifetime sales in the week following its win on 14 October, reports the...
‘The Things We Can’t Undo’ wins AAFT Award for Children’s Literature
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Gabrielle Reid’s YA novel The Things We Can’t Undo (Ford Street) has won the 2019 Australian Association of Family Therapists’ (AAFT) Award for Children’s Literature. The novel follows the relationship between...
Macfie wins 2019 CLNZ Writers’ Award
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Journalist Rebecca Macfie has won the Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)/New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Writers’ Award, worth NZ$25,000 (A$23,360), to help support her biography of Helen Kelly—the first...
Galley Beggar publisher questions Booker Prize judging process
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
‘It’s one thing to feel bad about losing. It’s another to feel you were never in the game ... Toxic thoughts and questions flood your mind when you can’t trust...
Winners announced for PM’s Literary Awards 2019
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The winners of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones, Text) Nonfiction Half...
Macquarie Uni study on rights sales: survey open
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Macquarie University is running a research project examining the international rights sales and export of Australian books over the last decade. Academics David Throsby, Paul Crosby and Jan Zwar are...
2020 vision: Kids’ and YA title preview
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
New books from favourites including Melina Marchetta, Sally Morgan and Jessica Townsend are slated for 2020 publication, alongside debuts by Danielle Binks and Georgina Young that are already generating buzz....
Walkley Journalism talks and masterclasses in Perth
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
The Walkley Foundation for journalism is Shining A Light On The Truth at the State Library of WA next weekend. Take a masterclass on Book-Length Journalism with Walkley Book Award-winner...
Great School Libraries report prompts call for compulsory library funding
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
In the UK, a new report from the Great School Libraries campaign has found that schools with a higher proportion of children on free meals are more than twice as...
Walker Books signs new Claire Saxby Nature Storybook for 2021
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Walker Books Australia has signed acclaimed author Claire Saxby for another new title in their award-winning 'Nature Storybook' series, which has sold over 180,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand...
Change for John Catt Educational Pty
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Publisher: John Catt Educational Pty New distributor: Woodslane Pty Ltd Changeover date: 1 July 2019
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