Nielsen offers one-off sales reports for ASA members seeking JobKeeper as book market experiences ‘sharp decline’
Thursday, 23 April 2020
Nielsen Book will provide free one-off sales reports for Australian Society of Authors (ASA) members seeking evidence of reduced revenue in order to apply for JobKeeper payments. The arrangement is...
NZ booksellers to begin trading again as restrictions eased, but supply ‘tricky’
Thursday, 23 April 2020
New Zealand’s booksellers are preparing to recommence trade from early next week, with the country’s Covid-19 restrictions due to be eased from late Monday, 27 April. New Zealand has been...
Hardie Grant reaches settlement with adviser who distributed leaked Turnbull memoir
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Hardie Grant has reached a settlement with Scott Morrison senior adviser Nico Louw, who allegedly distributed leaked electronic copies of Malcolm Turnbull's memoir A Bigger Picture, and the publisher will...
‘It’s been quite amazing to see the shift’: How Farrells fast-tracked its online store during Covid-19
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
After more than 40 years in the business, Farrells on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula launched their online store last week, fast-tracking a three-month process into three weeks to meet customer demand...
Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist announced
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
The 2020 shortlist for the £30,000 (A$58,600) Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlisted novels are: Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo, Hamish Hamilton) The Mirror & The Light...
‘When the Ground is Hard’ wins LA Times Book Prize for YA
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
When the Ground is Hard by Sydney-based writer Malla Nunn (A&U) has won the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young adult literature. Nunn was shortlisted for the award...
HarperCollins acquires ANZ rights to Jabour book on ‘the most miserable generation yet’
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new nonfiction book on millennials by journalist and novelist Bridie Jabour. The as-yet-untitled book on ‘the most miserable generation yet’ was acquired...
Writing WA moves Love to Read Local campaign forward amid Covid-19
Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Writing WA’s Love to Read Local initiative, originally intended as a week-long celebration of WA books and storytelling scheduled for May, has been adapted and brought forward in response to...
International Booker postponed amid distribution disruption
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The Booker Prize Foundation has postponed the International Booker Prize winner announcement due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The award was originally set to be announced on 19 May, but will...
Shortlist for £10,000 Ondaatje Prize announced
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The 2020 shortlist for the £10,000 (A$19,520) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The annual award recognises books ‘of the highest literary merit—fiction, nonfiction or poetry—which best...
ANZ writers shortlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
One Australian and two New Zealand writers are among the finalists for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Australian writer Andrea E Macleod was shortlisted for her story ‘The Art...
Booked Out launches virtual visits with Copyright Agency funding
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
The speakers agency Booked Out has received funding from the Copyright Agency’s Covid-19 emergency funding to run a new project during Term two. 'Reaching Out' is a discrete project that...
‘A Treacherous Country’ wins 2020 Vogel
Monday, 20 April 2020
A Treacherous Country by K M Kruimink is the winner of the 2020 The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35. Publisher...
PW launches #BooksAreEssential campaign
Monday, 20 April 2020
US trade publication Publishers Weekly (PW) has launched a new social media campaign to promote the importance of books. The #BooksAreEssential hashtag was created in response to the shutdown of...
Bloomsbury announces salary reductions, issues shares in response to Covid-19
Monday, 20 April 2020
Bloomsbury Australia’s parent company in the UK has asked the majority of employees to take a pay cut for three months, while Friday afternoons will be paid time off for...
Hardie Grant to refer unauthorised distribution of Turnbull memoir to AFP
Monday, 20 April 2020
Hardie Grant Publishing will refer the alleged distribution of a pirated edition of Malcolm Turnbull’s memoir A Bigger Picture to the Australian Federal Police. 'The nature and breadth of this...
Five ANZ publishers nominated for Bologna Prize
Monday, 20 April 2020
Australian publishers Affirm Press, Hardie Grant Egmont and Windy Hollow Books, and New Zealand's Huia Publishers and Oratia Media, have been shortlisted for the 2020 Bologna Prize for Best Children’s...
Pantera acquires Hamouda family memoir
Friday, 17 April 2020
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to a memoir by Australian father–daughter pair Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda, from Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The joint memoir, told from alternating perspectives,...
Court limits Amazon France to delivery of essential items
Friday, 17 April 2020
In France, Amazon has closed six of its warehouses after a court ruling stopped the delivery of nonessential items, reports the Bookseller. The court in Nanterre found that Amazon had...
ASA, ALIA and APA launch list to connect authors with schools, libraries
Friday, 17 April 2020
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA), Australian Publishers Association and Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have collaborated to develop a new online listing of authors and illustrators available for...
Bookselling in the time of Covid-19
Thursday, 16 April 2020
In late 2019 Readings marketing and events coordinator Ellen Cregan was selected as one of four booksellers to participate in the Melbourne City of Literature’s Bookseller in Residence program. Little...
Changes at Books+Publishing
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Owner and publisher of Books+Publishing Gary Pengelly writes: ‘Like everyone in the industry at this time, Books+Publishing continues to look for ways to contribute to the Australian bookselling and publishing...
Aissaoui wins US$50k International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Algerian author Abdelouahab Aissaoui has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel The Spartan Court, which tells the story of the French campaign against Algiers in...
Shaw sells Turner’s ‘Hang Him When He Is Not There’ to US
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US and Canadian rights to Nicholas Turner's novel Hang Him When He Is Not There to US indie publisher Zerogram. The sale is the...
McKinty, McTiernan shortlisted for international thriller award
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Adrian McKinty and Dervla McTiernan have been shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers’ Thriller Awards 2020. McKinty was shortlisted for the best hardcover novel for his book The Chain (Hachette),...
MWF 2020 to take place online
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which is scheduled to run 7–16 August 2020, will deliver a smaller online program due to the Covid-19 crisis. 'Our team is at home thinking, reading...
PRH Spain introduces online direct sales platform
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
In Spain, Penguin Random House (PRH) has launched Mugustaleer, a direct sales ecommerce platform for print books, after several weeks of country-wide lockdown measures that have included bookshop closures. Ten...
Shortlist announced for 2020 Jhalak Prize for BAME writers
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
The shortlist for the UK’s Jhalak Prize for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Black Flamingo (Dean Atta, Hodder Children’s) Remembered...
ABA launches new website as authors, booksellers and publishers adapt to business under lockdown
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Australia’s booksellers, publishers, authors and industry bodies are seeking new and different ways to connect with readers during the Covid-19 restrictions. ABA launches new Love Your Bookshop site The Australian...
Heath wins IBBY Ena Noël award
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Jack Heath has won the 2020 Ena Noël Award, a biennial prize administered by the Australian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to encourage emerging...
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