Copyright Agency publishes Cornegé report on the digital revolution and marketing
Thursday, 1 February 2018
The Copyright Agency has published a report by Allen & Unwin head of publicity Louise Cornegé that examines how the digital revolution has changed the way publishers market and promote...
Full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week 2018 announced
Thursday, 1 February 2018
The full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 3-8 March, has been announced. This year’s festival is dedicated to children's author Mem Fox, who will be in conversation...
Scribble sells rights to ‘Rhyme Cordial’, ‘Grandma Z’
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold rights to two forthcoming children’s books. World rights (ex ANZ) to Antonia Pesenti’s board book Rhyme Cordial were sold to Phaidon ahead of its...
Berbay invited to Barcelona children’s literary and arts festival
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Melbourne-based publisher Berbay Publishing has been invited by the Spanish cultural agency Acción Cultural Española to participate in FLIC Professional in March 2018. FLIC is a youth and children’s literary...
Copyright Agency introduces new nonfiction fellowship
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
The Copyright Agency has announced it has boosted the value of its annual fellowship program from $120,000 to $285,000, including a new $80,000 fellowship for a specific work of nonfiction....
US producer acquires screen rights to ‘Shantaram’
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Producers Anonymous Content and Paramount TV have acquired screen rights to Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram and its sequel, The Mountain Shadow. Deadline Hollywood reports that the producers plan to turn...
Lindgren joins BWF as guest artistic director
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
UPLIT has announced Carl Lindgren as the guest artistic director for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival. Lindgren will serve as guest artistic director until the end of 2018, while UPLIT’s...
Fremantle Press to release three new editions of ‘A Fortunate Life’
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Fremantle Press will release three new editions of A B Facey’s 1981 novel A Fortunate Life this year, after publication rights recently returned to the small publisher. Fremantle Press will...
PRH reveals shortlist for its inaugural literary prize
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the shortlist for its inaugural PRH Australia Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The prize aims to find and develop new Australian authors of literary fiction...
The books: Jane Harper leads strong local offering
Monday, 29 January 2018
There was a strong showing from local authors in booksellers’ most-mentioned bestsellers across fiction, nonfiction and children’s. Jane Harper topped the most-mentioned fiction title list, ahead of UK author Philip...
Supply: Frustrated booksellers call for industry strategy
Monday, 29 January 2018
For many booksellers, addressing the trade’s issues with delivery and availability is becoming more important with Amazon’s arrival, with stores frustrated by unreliable supply threatening their relationships with customers. Sophie...
Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: Value and volume up; Jamie Oliver tops the bestsellers
Monday, 29 January 2018
Value and volume sales were up in both the 12-week and four-week periods leading to 23 December 2017, compared to the same periods in 2016. The volume of books sold...
Publishers’ perspectives
Monday, 29 January 2018
Christmas sales in 2017 were better than expected for three quarters of Australian publishers surveyed in Books+Publishing’s annual post-Christmas survey, with the remaining respondents reporting sales were ‘close to expectations’....
Book industry figures among 2018 Australia Day honours recipients
Monday, 29 January 2018
A number of book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Janet McCalman was made Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia,...
Echo acquires Morris, Evans and Jeffreys
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Bonnier Publishing’s Echo imprint has acquired three new novels, set for release in 2018 and 2019. Echo had acquired world rights to the second novel by Heather Morris, whose debut,...
UNE researcher awarded Fulbright scholarship to study US-based Australian authors
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Anne Pender, professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of New England, has received a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to study the ‘lives and output’ of three Australian authors who...
Google Play adds audiobooks titles
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Google has begun selling audiobooks to its Google Play Store in Australia and 45 other countries. The Australian store features ‘The Sound of Aussie Authors’ category, which currently contains 48...
Margaret River Short Story Competition 2018 winner announced
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Andrew Roff has won the 2018 Margaret River Short Story Competition for his story ‘Pigface’. Cassie Hamer came in second place with her story, ‘Habitat’, while Tiffany Hastie was selected...
Hachette acquires new novel by Hannah Richell
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Hachette Australia has acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Hannah Richell’s new novel, The Peacock Summer, in a joint deal with Orion UK. Hachette describes the novel as ‘an...
Serong shortlisted for 2018 Edgars
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Australian author Jock Serong has been shortlisted for the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars), which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction’ published in the US in...
EWF, MWF, Express Media, Writers Vic to stay open on 26 January
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
The offices of the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), Express Media, Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) and Writers Victoria will remain open on 26 January in support of the movement to change...
Walker Books to publish middle-grade fiction book by Zoe Norton Lodge and sister Georgia
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
TV presenter and comedian Zoe Norton Lodge has teamed up with her sister Georgia, a graphic designer and illustrator, for a new middle-grade fiction title, Elizabella Meets Her Match, to be published...
Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2018-19
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
A number of writers have been awarded international residencies for 2018-19 as part of the Australia Council’s program. Authors Emily Bitto and Fiona McFarlane will each undertake a six-month residency...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $1.035m funding grants
Monday, 22 January 2018
Thirty-five arts organisations have received a total of $1.035m in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects that received funding in the...
Hachette acquires Pomare’s debut novel ‘In My Skull’
Friday, 19 January 2018
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne-based writer J P (Joshua) Pomare’s debut novel In My Skull in a six-publisher auction. Rights were acquired by Hachette Australia head of...
Full program announced for 2018 Perth Writers Week
Friday, 19 January 2018
The full program has been announced for the 2018 Perth Festival Writers Week, which runs from 19-25 February. Events at the festival include the pairing of ‘literary giants’ Kim Scott...
Cowley shortlisted for 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Awards
Thursday, 18 January 2018
New Zealand children’s book author Joy Cowley has been shortlisted for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, administered by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Cowley is...
Chen-Meyer awarded Tiptree Fellowship
Thursday, 18 January 2018
Australian writer Ineke Chen-Meyer has been announced as one of two recipients of the 2017 Tiptree Fellowship. The fellowship, run by the US-based James Tiptree Jr Literary Award, provides ‘support...
Robinsons to open 10th Melbourne store
Thursday, 18 January 2018
Independent bookselling chain Robinsons Bookshop is opening a new store in Plenty Valley Westfield in Melbourne’s north in March. Robinsons owner Susanne Horman told Books+Publishing that construction on the new...
Writers Vic announces second round of women writers of colour bursary recipients
Thursday, 18 January 2018
Writer’s Victoria has announced the recipients of its second series of professional development opportunities for women writers of colour and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. The second round of commissions and...
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