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...
Hill wins 2020 Stella Prize for ‘See What You Made Me Do’
Wednesday, 15 April 2020
Jess Hill has won the 2020 Stella Prize, worth $50,000, for her investigation of domestic violence See What You Made Me Do (Black Inc.). Judging panel chair Louise Swinn said See...
S&S acquires debut women’s fiction ‘Grace Under Pressure’
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights to debut women’s fiction novel Grace Under Pressure by Sydney-based food and travel writer Tori Haschka. Rights were acquired from Catherine Drayton...
HarperCollins UK puts staff on furlough
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
HarperCollins UK is placing a number of its staff on furlough, reports the Bookseller. The number of staff to be put on furlough is unconfirmed, but it includes those from...
Bookshops adapt to change: tell us your story
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
We know the situation for retailers is changing daily amid Covid-19 restrictions. We also know that many booksellers, in finding new ways to connect with customers, are experiencing wonderful community...
Andrew’s Bookshop closes permanently
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Andrew’s Bookshop in Ivanhoe, Melbourne, has closed permanently. The store, which has operated for 36 years, was due to close this month, but shut earlier due to Covid-19. In a...
Redundancies expected as Lonely Planet reduces global publishing operations; Melbourne office to close ‘almost entirely’
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Lonely Planet will reduce its publishing operations with immediate effect, including essentially shuttering its Melbourne and London offices, due to the economic impact of Covid-19. In an email to staff...
Debut novel ‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ to be reprinted in first week
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Affirm Press will reprint Pip Williams' debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words after impressive sales in its first week of publication. Published on 31 March, The Dictionary of Lost...
APA, ASA make agreement with schools for virtual storytime
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Teachers are able to continue to read stories to students learning from school or at home during the Covid-19 outbreak, following an industry arrangement for school storytimes. For the duration...
No ‘Daily’ until Tuesday
Thursday, 9 April 2020
The Daily newsletter will not be published tomorrow, 10 April, or on Monday, 13 April, due to the Easter public holidays. The next Daily will be published Tuesday, 14 April. Next week's Weekly...
European markets and Covid-19: Consumers brace for quarantine with ebooks
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
European members of PubMagNet—a network of publishing and bookselling trade publications from across the globe—have shared with Books+Publishing summaries of how their book markets are faring, and how each country's...
Redundancies at Hardie Grant, Scribe; T&H reduces staff hours temporarily
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Australian publishers have begun taking measures to reduce staff costs in response to the Covid-19 outbreak, with redundancies announced at Hardie Grant and Scribe. Hardie Grant, Scribe confirm redundancies Hardie...
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Please note that, due to the Easter break, the next Weekly Book Newsletter will be published on Thursday, 16 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements is therefore 12...
UK publishers furlough staff
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK, Hachette UK and Bonnier UK are furloughing a number of their workers, reports the Bookseller. For furloughed workers, the UK government is providing grants for...
Barker launches rights agency for children’s and YA
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Former rights director and managing director at Hardie Grant Egmont Annabel Barker has launched a literary and rights agency, specialising in children’s writing and illustration. Annabel Barker Agency will sell...
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