Cham, Jenkins named joint winners of Anne Elder poetry award
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Australian Poetry has announced joint winners of the 2019 Anne Elder Award: Cham Zhi Yi for blur by the (Subbed In) and Gareth Sion Jenkins for Recipes for the Disaster...
Under the covers: Tegan Bennett Daylight on ‘The Details’
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Tegan Bennett Daylight's new collection of essays The Details: On love, death and reading (Scribner, July) explores her own memories and experiences through the lens of her life in reading and...
US Independent booksellers rally together via Bookshop.org
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Bookshop.org has raised more than US$1.2 million (A$1.86m) for independent bookstores in the US. Could a similar model work here? Jinghua Qian reports. The book world has watched the rise...
More new pub dates confirmed for books delayed due to Covid-19
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Since Books+Publishing reported last week on the books being postponed due to Covid-19, publishers have confirmed further impacts on their schedules. Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Anabel Pandiella told Books+Publishing the...
Windy Hollow Books named Bologna publisher of the year
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Melbourne-based publisher Windy Hollow Books has been named the winner of the Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publisher of the Year in the Oceania category. ‘Windy Hollow Books has...
Whitehead wins second Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Nickel Boys’
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
In the US, Colson Whitehead has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel The Nickel Boys (Fleet). He is the fourth person to win the fiction prize...
Arena acquires film rights to Cobby Eckermann’s ‘Ruby Moonlight’
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Production company Arenamedia has acquired screen adaptation rights to Ali Cobby Eckermann’s verse novel Ruby Moonlight (Magabala Books), via Natasha Solomun at The Rights Hive. Arenamedia partnered with No Coincidence...
Booktopia partners with Kobo for ebook, audiobook sales
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Booktopia has changed its ebook offering following a deal with Rakuten Kobo to exclusively offer Kobo ebooks. Through the Booktopia by Rakuten Kobo app, readers will have access to Kobo’s...
Australia Reads receives $100K in federal funding, announces Reading Hour date change
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
The Australia Reads campaign has received $100,000 in funding from the federal government, it announced today. Chair of the Australia Reads committee, Hachette ANZ CEO Louise Sherwin-Stark, said the government...
McGraw Hill and Cengage call off merger
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
McGraw Hill and Cengage have ‘mutually agreed to terminate their proposed merger’, according to a statement from McGraw Hill. According to the Bookseller, Cengage said the decision was brought about...
Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2020 winners announced
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
In the US, the Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’ published...
S&S appoints Nolan as commercial nonfiction publisher
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has appointed Emma Nolan to the role of commercial nonfiction publisher. Nolan was previously head of entertainment for Pacific Magazines, where she oversaw and created content...
Scribe acquisition of ‘The Palace Letters’ ‘personal’ for Rosenbloom
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Scribe has acquired The Palace Letters by Jenny Hocking via Jenny Darling & Associates. The book will cover Hocking’s efforts to make Australia’s National Archive release letters between former Australian...
NZ publishers struggling after lockdown ‘obliterated’ April sales
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
The Publishers Association of New Zealand/Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) reports that the country’s book publishers ‘are struggling to regroup after seeing sales obliterated in April’. Under New Zealand’s month-long...
Gardners re-opens with ‘much reduced staff’
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
In the UK, Garners has announced it is again accepting online orders and ‘will look to turning on further methods of accepting orders as soon as we can’, after having...
Kavanagh, Callil among Copyright Agency-funded ‘emerging culture critics’
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Book critics Bec Kavanagh and Jack Callil are among five ‘emerging culture critics’ appointed to write for Nine’s newspapers with its share of $150,000 in funding from the Copyright Agency...
Bertrams future ‘at risk’
Monday, 4 May 2020
In the UK, the Sunday Times reports that Bertrams will appoint an administrator, with the Bookseller writing that the book wholesaler’s future is ‘at risk’ following the sale of its...
Amazon’s first quarter sales up 26%, net earnings down 31%
Monday, 4 May 2020
In the US, Amazon has posted a 26% increase in revenue in the first quarter of 2020, up to US$75.5 billion (A$118.2b), reports Publishers Weekly. Sales through the company’s online...
SPN launches podcast, plans for real-world November conference
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced that it has begun planning this year’s Independent Publishing Conference, which is scheduled to run from 26–28 November in Melbourne. ‘We are working...
Bishop, Bui, Rowe named SMH 2020 Best Young Aus Novelists
Monday, 4 May 2020
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has announced its 2020 Best Young Australian Novelists, all of whom have been chosen for short story collections. The writers are: Alice Bishop for A...
O’Brien wins €10,000 Moth Poetry Prize
Friday, 1 May 2020
Queensland poet Damen O’Brien has won the €10,000 (A$19,400) Moth Poetry Prize for ‘The Nave’. The annual prize for a single unpublished poem is sponsored by the publishers of literary...
Covid-19 hits first quarter sales at Bertelsmann, Lagardère
Friday, 1 May 2020
The parent companies of Hachette and Penguin Random House (PRH) have both reported first-quarter revenue declines due to the challenges of Covid-19. According to Publishers Weekly, Lagardère—the parent company of...
Hachette Aus experiences one of its ‘best ever’ first quarters, as Lagardère reports sales decline
Friday, 1 May 2020
Hachette Australia has enjoyed one of its ‘best ever’ first quarters this year, despite Hachette Book Group parent company Lagardère reporting that year-on-year sales dipped 0.8% over the same period....
UQP sells ‘Too Much Lip’ to HarperVia
Friday, 1 May 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip to HarperCollins international imprint HarperVia. HarperOne Group president and publisher Judith...
ANZ picture books longlisted for World Illustration Awards
Friday, 1 May 2020
A number of Australian and New Zealand picture book creators have been longlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2020. Spanning 10 categories, the 500-strong longlist includes five ANZ illustrators nominated...
Black Inc. acquires local rights to ‘On Pandemics’ by Canadian epidemiologist
Friday, 1 May 2020
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ rights to On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus, by Canadian epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews. After acquiring the rights on 24 April, Black Inc. will publish...
SWF launches podcast series to give 2020 program ‘a new story’
Friday, 1 May 2020
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) will present more than 50 're-imagined sessions' from its 2020 program as a series of podcasts, after the festival was forced to cancel due to...
Australia Reads launches ‘School Kids’ initiative
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Australia Reads has launched Australia Reads: School Kids, a list of recommended books for which publishers will create teaching notes and offer increased bookseller discounts. With input from The Little...
Picador acquires ‘The Dressmaker’ sequel
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Picador has acquired ANZ rights to The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham via Jenny Darling & Associates. The Dressmaker's Secret is a direct sequel following the events of Ham's debut novel...
Shortlist announced for £40k Wolfson History Prize
Thursday, 30 April 2020
In the UK, the shortlist for the £40,000 (A$76,200) Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (David Abulafia,...
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