S&S acquires Sales nonfiction
Friday, 24 February 2023
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired world rights to a new work of nonfiction by Leigh Sales. Storytellers: Questions, answers and the craft of journalism will contain 10...
Bookshop.org to sell ebooks, publish first book
Friday, 24 February 2023
In the US, Bookshop.org will start selling ebooks by the end of the year, and is publishing its first print book in October, reports Publishers Weekly. The ebook program will...
HarperCollins acquires Woods debut in two-book deal
Thursday, 23 February 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel After the Forest by Kell Woods, in a two-book pre-emptive deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers and Tor Books. After...
‘Ghost Bird’ receives funding for feature film development
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Lisa Fuller’s young adult novel Ghost Bird (UQP) has received funding from Screen Australia to develop the book into a feature film. The funding is part of Screen Australia’s First...
Revenue up, profit down at Bonnier
Thursday, 23 February 2023
Swedish publisher Bonnier Books’s revenue grew 7% to SEK7.4 billion (A$1b) in 2022, while earnings fell 39% to SEK385 million (A$54.3m), reports the Bookseller. The drop in earnings was attributed...
Affirm acquires VPLA 2023 unpublished manuscript winner
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to One Divine Night by Mick Cummins, the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (VPLA) for an unpublished manuscript, in a deal...
Baby boom: The growth of children’s and young adult market
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
In our latest genre spotlight Books+Publishing takes a look at the children’s and young adult category. Children’s and young adult (CYA) titles have been driving the growth of the Australian book market in...
Betts, Di Lorenzo drive 48% local publishing growth at S&S
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has recorded a ‘record year of sales, profit, and market share’, according to managing director Dan Ruffino, who told Books+Publishing that 2022 was the ‘third...
Linwood Messina sells ‘The Dreaming Path’ to HarperOne
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Gregory Messina of Linwood Messina Literary Agency has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Paul Callaghan’s The Dreaming Path: Indigenous thinking to change your life written with Uncle Paul...
Nielsen survey: 25 to 34 year olds buy ‘lion’s share of audiobooks’
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
A pilot report from Nielsen BookData’s ANZ Books & Consumers service has found most audiobooks purchases are by readers in the 25 to 34 age bracket. The report, which highlights...
Acquisitions help boost Lagardère Publishing sales
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Hachette parent company Lagardère Publishing’s revenue grew 5.8% in 2022 to €2.75 billion (A$4.2b), though earnings fell 14% to €302 million (A$467m), reports Publishers Weekly. The revenue growth was attributed...
Five Australian publishers shortlisted for 2023 Bologna Prize
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Australian publishers Affirm Press, EK Books, Magabala Books, Starfish Bay and Wilkins Farago have been shortlisted in this year’s Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year in the...
VIPs 2023 in-person program to run alongside SWF
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
The Australia Council has announced the Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program will return this year as an in-person program, for the first time since 2019. The 2023 VIPs program will...
McFarlane, Serong longlisted for 2023 Walter Scott Prize
Monday, 20 February 2023
Two Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK’s £25,000 (A$43,750) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Fiona McFarlane was longlisted for her second novel The Sun Walks Down (A&U),...
US online sales up 5.6%
Monday, 20 February 2023
In the US, a report from Bookstat found online sales of print books, ebooks and audiobooks grew 5.6% to US$12.13 billion (A$17.7b) in 2022, reports Publishers Weekly. Bookstat covers an...
Racklyeft wins 2023 SCBWI Bologna Scholarship
Friday, 17 February 2023
Melbourne-based author and illustrator Jess Racklyeft has been awarded a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) International Bologna Scholarship to attend this year’s Bologna book fair. Racklyeft and...
Books in the media this weekend: 18–19 February
Friday, 17 February 2023
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Credo: Selected essays (Imants Tillers, Giramondo) O'Leary of the Underworld (Kate...
US bookstore sales rise 6%
Friday, 17 February 2023
In the US, bookstore sales rose an estimated 6.2% last year over 2021 according to preliminary estimates from the US Census Bureau, reports Publishers Weekly. According to US Census Bureau...
Paramount reportedly exploring sale of S&S
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) parent company Paramount is working with a financial adviser to explore a sale of the publisher, reports Reuters. Reuters reports that, according to people familiar with...
Walker acquires Kate and Angourie Rice YA romance novel
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to YA romance novel Stuck Up and Stupid, the first book by mother and daughter writing team Kate and Angourie Rice, via Benython...
Dinalie Dabarera recommends
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
I recently finished reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Picador), which very poignantly deals with some themes similar to those in my own book, like family, culture and...
Dinalie Dabarera on ‘Quiet Time with My Seeya’
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Dinalie Dabarera's debut picture book Quiet Time with My Seeya tells a gentle story of the relationship between a young child and her Sinhalese grandpa. 'This mutual love and tenderness...
Ultimo acquires Yankovich debut book on friendship in ‘heated auction’
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired UK/Commonwealth rights to Gyan Yankovich’s debut work of nonfiction Just Friends. Rights were acquired in a ‘heated auction’ in a deal agented by Rach Crawford at...
Transit Lounge acquires Cameron literary thriller
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Rewilding, the second novel by Donna M Cameron, via Fiona Johnson at Beyond Words Literary Agency. ‘The Rewilding captures the essence of...
King joins HarperCollins as nonfiction publisher
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
HarperCollins Australia has appointed Georgia Frances King to the role of publisher, commissioning nonfiction for the ABC Books and HarperCollins imprints. King replaces Jude McGee, who left HarperCollins in December...
Strong season for publishers as sales top pre-pandemic figures
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
BookTok drove sales of US titles, print delays were a challenge and, looking ahead, 'pricing will finally be going up', but for most publishers, Christmas 2022 was a good one....
PRH signs Johns in two-book deal
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the novel The Other Bridget Jones by Rachael Johns in a two-book deal, agented by Helen Breitwieser of Cornerstone Literary....
Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize shortlists
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
The shortlists for the 2022 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize have been announced. The eight poems shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize are:...
B&N sales up in 2022
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
In the US, sales at chain bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) in 2022 were ‘very comfortably’ above pre-pandemic levels, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). CEO James Daunt told PW 2022 was...
Scribe acquires Smaill’s ‘Bird Life’
Monday, 13 February 2023
In the UK, Scribe has acquired world English rights to the novel Bird Life by New Zealand author Anna Smaill via Will Francis at Janklow and Nesbit, reports BookBrunch. Smaill...
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