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Change for Albert Whitman & Company

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company ISBN prefix: 97808075 Old distributor: INT Books New distributor: Novella Distribution Changeover date: 1 September 2018 Returns cut-off: 31 December 2018 Contact URL: bookstores.novelladistribution.com.au

Change for Orca Publishing

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Publisher: Orca Publishing Old distributor: INT Books New distributor: Novella Distribution Changeover date: 1 September 2018 Returns cut-off: 31 December 2018 Contact URL: bookstores.novelladistribution.com.au

Change for Mason Crest

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Publisher: Mason Crest ISBN prefix: 978159084; 978159482; 97814222 Old distributor: INT Books New distributor: Novella Distribution Changeover date: 1 September 2018 Returns cut-off: 31 December 2018 Contact URL: bookstores.novelladistribution.com.au

Editors NSW: Basic copyright and copyright issues

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Editors NSW is running a workshop with Olivia Lanchester, Legal Services Manager at the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), who will talk through the basics of copyright and the copyright...

Amber Gilchrist has joined Exisle Publishing

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Amber Gilchrist has joined the newly created position of NSW Sales Manager at Exisle Publishing in Sydney. Amber Gilchrist begins the position on 14 January 2019.

S&S sells 2 millionth ‘Dork Diaries’

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Simon & Schuster Australia is thrilled to announce they have invoiced more than 2 million copies of the bestselling Dork Diaries series. The milestone further cements Dork Diaries as the...

‘Dinner Detectives’ creators win global pitching competition

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Australian children’s book creators Yves Stening and Nigel Buchanan have won a pitching competition at the world’s biggest children’s entertainment industry event, MIPJunior, reports the Herald Sun. Stening and Buchanan’s...

Burns wins 2018 Man Booker Prize

Wednesday, 17 October 2018
Northern Irish writer Anna Burns has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman (Faber). She is the first Northern Irish author and 17th woman to win...

Book-to-screen

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
SLR Productions has commenced production on an animated telemovie based on Jacqueline Harvey’s ‘Alice-Miranda’ children’s book series (Random House Australia). The comedy-drama Alice Miranda Shines Bright will premiere on Australian...

Putting the anarchy back into childhood

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
A recent interview with bestselling Australian children’s book creators Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton—which coincides with the release of their latest book and this month’s top-selling Australian children’s fiction title...

Hachette to launch ‘Fortnite’ publishing program

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Hachette Australia, in association with Hachette divisions in the UK, USA, France and Spain, has announced a publishing program based on the popular game Fortnite. In a deal brokered by International...

Condé wins alternative Nobel prize

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé has won the New Academy Prize in literature, a one-off award created to replace this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, which was cancelled following a sexual...

OzCo appoints Adrian Collette as CEO

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
The Australia Council for the Arts has appointed Adrian Collette as its incoming chief executive officer. Collette worked in publishing for a decade, including as managing director at Reed Books,...

ANZ authors nominated for 2019 Astrid Lindgren Award

Monday, 15 October 2018
Ten authors and illustrators from Australia and New Zealand and one Australian organisation have been nominated for the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The Australian nominees are: Randa Abdel-Fattah Ursula...

‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ to be adapted for TV

Friday, 12 October 2018
Australian producer Bruna Papandrea’s company Made Up Stories has acquired screen rights to Holly Ringland’s debut novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Fourth Estate), and will develop the project...

ASA to wind up print magazine after 50 years

Friday, 12 October 2018
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced it will no longer produce its biannual print magazine, Australian Author, and will transition to digital publishing. ‘The financial argument is now...