Bloomsbury reports record sales
Friday, 17 June 2022
In the UK, Bloomsbury achieved record sales of £230.1 million (A$403m)—up 24% on the previous year—in the year ending 28 February 2022, reports the Bookseller. Profits before taxation and highlighted...
Books in the media this weekend, 18–19 June
Friday, 17 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Basin (Scott McCulloch, Black Inc.) Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan) Horse...
ABA conference 2022: diversity, sustainability discussed—in person
Thursday, 16 June 2022
This year the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference was held in person for the first time since 2019, taking place 12–13 June at the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park in Sydney....
Scribble, Think+DO Tank Foundation announce inaugural Mirror Mentorship Program winners
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Scribe children's imprint Scribble and the Think+DO Tank Foundation have announced the winners of the inaugural Mirror Mentorship Program, which provides support and mentoring 'with the aim of making new...
Opus acquisition of Ovato book printing unopposed by ACCC
Thursday, 16 June 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has stated that it does not oppose the acquisition of Ovato Book Printing (formerly Griffin Press) by Opus Group, owner of McPherson's. The...
Ozeki wins Women’s Prize for Fiction for ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness’
Thursday, 16 June 2022
In the UK, Ruth Ozeki has won the £30,000 (A$52,120) Women’s Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel The Book of Form and Emptiness (Text), reports the Bookseller. Ozeki's novel tells the...
BookUp 2022: Greening and gatekeeping
Thursday, 16 June 2022
The second annual BookUp conference, presented by the Australian Publishers Association (APA), was held in Sydney on Thursday, 9 June. ‘At least 180 people engaged with the program this year,...
Sophie Cunningham recommends
Thursday, 16 June 2022
I’ve just finished Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper (S&S). It’s a beautiful book, about the act of story telling and about the traumas that sometimes lie at the heart of...
Sophie Cunningham on ‘This Devastating Fever’
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
This Devastating Fever (Ultimo, September) is Sophie Cunningham's first novel in more than a decade. The novel interweaves the story of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their friends in the Bloomsbury...
Varuna announces 2022 Writer’s Space fellows
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the 2022 Writer’s Space fellowships for writers with disability or who are D/deaf. The fellowship program is open to writers...
Penguin Literary Prize 2022 winner announced
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Sydney-based writer Annette Higgs as the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize for an unpublished...
New Craig novel ‘Wall’ sells to US
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US rights to Sydney author Jen Craig's third novel Wall to Zerogram Press. The narrator of Wall is a London-based Australian visual artist (with 'a...
UTA to acquire Curtis Brown
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
US-based company United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed an agreement to acquire literary agency Curtis Brown for an undisclosed sum, reports the Bookseller. Curtis Brown, which is based in the...
Authors, industry figures recognised in 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
A number of Australian authors and industry figures were recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sophie Blackall was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of...
Costa announces end to Costa Book Awards
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
In the UK, Costa Coffee has announced the end of the Costa Book Awards, reports the Guardian. According to the Guardian, Costa has not yet given a reason for closing the...
‘Love & Virtue’ wins Booksellers’ Choice adult fiction book of the year 2022
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of its annual book and bookseller of the year awards. The winners in each category are: Adult fiction Love & Virtue (Diana Reid,...
Affirm Press to launch national sales team
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Melbourne-based independent publisher Affirm Press has announced it is launching its own national sales team, the first new sales force in Australian publishing since Hardie Grant launched its own in...
No Daily on Monday
Friday, 10 June 2022
The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not be published on Monday, 13 June due to the Queen's Birthday public holiday. The next Daily will be published Tuesday, 14 June.
APA: publishers for and against proposed Ovato acquisition
Friday, 10 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) reports that its members hold a 'breadth' of views on Opus Group's proposed acquisition of Ovato Book Printing. The APA said its submission to the...
Hughes apologises for plagiarism in Miles Franklin-longlisted novel
Friday, 10 June 2022
In an exclusive article, the Guardian Australia reports it has found multiple instances of plagiarism in John Hughes’s novel The Dogs (Upswell), recently longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary...
Books in the media this weekend, 11–12 June
Friday, 10 June 2022
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Bad Art Mother (Edwina Preston, Wakefield) Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP)...
‘Love & Virtue’ wins ABIA book of the year 2022
Friday, 10 June 2022
The winners of the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) have been announced. Diana Reid's debut novel Love & Virtue took out the overall ABIA book of the year as well as...
Canada’s Indigo Books sales up 17.4% in 2022
Thursday, 9 June 2022
Canada’s largest bookshop chain Indigo Books & Music increased its sales by 17.4.% for the year ending 2 April, reports Publishers Weekly. The chain reported total sales of C$1.06 billion...
George Robertson Award 2022 winners announced
Thursday, 9 June 2022
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2022 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry. The 2022 recipients are: Pam...
Pantera acquires new Awad novel
Thursday, 9 June 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the novel Let Me Know When We Get There by Amal Awad, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as...
Text Prize 2022 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The shortlist for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, worth $10,000, has been announced. The shortlisted manuscripts are: ‘Bellamy Jones and the Lost Treeheart’ by Emily Beck...
WBN published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
Due to the Queen's Birthday public holiday on Monday, 13 June, the Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 16 June next week. The deadline for classifieds and job...
Neilma Sidney Travel Fund 2022 recipients announced
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
Writers Victoria has announced the seventh round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund, which has opened up to international travel again after pandemic-related travel restrictions in 2021....
Open Book intern Bohdi Byles on cracking open the book industry
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The Open Book: Australian Publishing Internship is a six-month internship program aimed to increase cultural diversity in the Australian publishing workforce. This year’s pilot program offered two paid placements, one...
Grace Heifetz: insights from the Open Book pilot program
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
The inaugural Open Book internship program received over 200 applications, with two successful applicants undertaking paid six-month internships this year, each with three different publishers and supported by an industry...
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