Thank you Mark Rubbo, from a sales rep
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Mark Rubbo retired as Readings MD on 28 July, after 50 years in the books business. Hardie Grant Books area manager, Victoria and Tasmania, Mandy Wildsmith reflects on working with...
Booker Prize 2023 longlist announced
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Booker Prize has been announced. The 13 books longlisted for the £50,000 (A$96,700) prize are: A Spell of Good Things (Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Canongate) Old God’s...
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize shortlist announced
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Black Wax’ by Winter Bel (France/UK) ‘The Mannequin’ by Rowan Heath (Victoria) ‘Our...
UQP acquires Figueroa Barroso debut
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Hailstones Fell without Rain by Natalia Figueroa Barroso. Hailstones Fell without Rain is a semi-autobiographical novel that focuses on the experiences of...
Inaugural DANZ award to celebrate diverse children’s fiction
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
The new biennial DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children's Book Award has been established 'to recognise, award, and celebrate diverse children’s fiction'. In partnership with the Australian...
Rewell wins 2023 Furphy Literary Award
Monday, 31 July 2023
The winners of the 2023 Furphy Literary Award have been announced. Journalist and copywriter Jen Rewell won this year's $15,000 award for ‘Away to Me’, which judges described as an...
New FNAWN Varuna fellowship, FNAWN Summit speakers announced
Monday, 31 July 2023
A new First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) Varuna Fellowship Program will offer six emerging or established members of FNAWN an all-expenses paid, fully catered one-week residency at Varuna in...
Nib Literary Award 2023 longlist announced
Monday, 31 July 2023
The longlist for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, worth $40,000, has been announced. The longlisted titles are: An Intimate History of Evolution: The story of the...
Audiobook publisher RBmedia to be sold
Monday, 31 July 2023
In the US, private equity firm KKR is selling the audiobook publisher RBmedia to investment firm H.I.G Capital, reports Publishers Weekly. RBmedia is reportedly being sold for more than US$1...
Graphic novelists to appear at Adelaide Papercuts Comics Festival
Friday, 28 July 2023
Papercuts Comics Festival, a biennial celebration of comics and graphic novels, will return to Adelaide on 16-17 September. The Creators in Conversation discussion panels include: children’s illustrators Gavin Aung Than,...
Sex: Two billion years of procreation and recreation optioned for television
Friday, 28 July 2023
The nonfiction book Sex: Two billion years of procreation and recreation (David Baker, Black Inc.) has been optioned by documentary producers Smith&Nasht for adaptation as a science television series, in a...
Lagardère Publishing sales grow 2.5% in first half
Friday, 28 July 2023
Hachette parent company Lagardère Publishing’s sales grew 2.5% in the first six months of 2023, while higher costs pushed profits down, reports Publishers Weekly. Lagardère’s recurring EBIT (earnings before interest...
Kingsolver, Pinkckney win James Tait Back Prizes
Thursday, 27 July 2023
In the UK, Barbara Kingsolver and Darryl Pinckney have been awarded the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography respectively. Kingsolver was awarded the fiction prize for Demon Copperhead...
Johnson, Ryckmans set up new lit agency
Thursday, 27 July 2023
Lou Johnson and Jeanne Ryckmans have set up a new literary agency, Key People Literary Management. Johnson was most recently the international publishing director for Miami-based Mango Publishing, after previous...
ASA makes submission to inquiry on safe and responsible AI
Thursday, 27 July 2023
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has raised concerns of authors and illustrators on the risk posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in a submission to the government inquiry into safe...
Vincent appointed Wheeler Centre CEO
Thursday, 27 July 2023
The Wheeler Centre has appointed ABC journalist and producer Erin Vincent as its new CEO, replacing Caro Llewellyn, who announced earlier this year that she would step down from the...
UWAP acquires debut novel by Tsokos Purtill
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Emily Tsokos Purtill’s debut novel Matia. Tsokos Purtill is a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage, who lives in Perth/Boorloo on the...
Davitt Awards 2023 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
Sisters in Crime Australia has announced the shortlists for the 2023 Davitt Awards for best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novel Release...
Elise Esther Hearst on ‘One Day We’re All Going to Die’
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Melbourne-based playwright and author Elise Esther Hearst has been described as ‘one of the most interesting young playwriting voices in Australian theatre’. Her debut novel One Day We’re All Going...
Chandran wins 2023 Miles Franklin for ‘Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens’
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Shankari Chandran has won the 2023 Miles Franklin Literary Award, worth $60,000, for her novel, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo). Chosen from a shortlist of six announced in June,...
Publishers flock to Threads
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Meta, the owners of Instagram and Facebook, launched the new app Threads—a very similar platform to Twitter—on 5 July, gaining 100 million users in only five days, as those frustrated...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2023 finalists announced
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
The finalists for the 2023 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. Finalists were announced in 10 categories including: Best Illustrated Book Cape to Bluff (Simon...
Hachette acquires new series from Buist and Simsion
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and US rights to Out of the Blue by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion in a two-book deal between the authors and Hachette’s head of...
Scholastic revenue up 4%
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Scholastic revenue grew 4% in the year ending 31 May, according to its fiscal 2023 report. Scholastic report revenue of US$1.7 billion (A$2.5b), up from US$1.6 billion (A$2.4b) in 2022....
Kathro joins Affirm as marketing manager
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Affirm Press has appointed Julia Kathro to the role of marketing manager. Kathro replaces acting marketing manager Paul Kenny, who will continue in his role as product and data manager....
NZ book trade awards: Lamplight wins Bookshop of the Year, A&U wins Publisher of the Year
Monday, 24 July 2023
The winners of the Aotearoa Book Trade Industry Awards, held 24 July in Rotorua, have been announced. Auckland bookstore Lamplight Books won the Bookshop of the Year award. Judges described...
UK six-month book sales sets record on back of price rises
Monday, 24 July 2023
In the UK, book sales in the first six months of 2023 represented the best-ever first half of a year results since accurate records began, reports the Bookseller. According to...
Shaw wins 2023 Michael Gifkins prize
Monday, 24 July 2023
Author and editor Tina Shaw has been awarded the 2023 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of five, Shaw wins...
Classification Review Board upholds determination on ‘Gender Queer’
Friday, 21 July 2023
The Australian Classification Review Board has rejected an appeal to the classification of the graphic novel Gender Queer: A memoir (Maia Kobabe, Oni Press), upholding its determination that the book...
HarperCollins US shuts down YA imprint
Friday, 21 July 2023
HarperCollins US will shut down its YA imprint Inkyard Press, with a number of staff to be laid off on 1 August, reports Publishers Weekly. Inkyard Press, which operated under...
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