News | Books+Publishing

UK indie publishers make more than half of sales overseas

Monday, 10 July 2023
British independent publishers are generating more than half their revenue from overseas, the Bookseller reports. The 2023 Independent Publishing Report, from industry group the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG), found that...

Project to examine role of digital media in promoting women writers

Monday, 10 July 2023
A research project investigating the role of digital media in promoting Australian women authors has received funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project grants, which promote partnerships between researchers...

Wakefield to publish First Nations anthology

Monday, 10 July 2023
Adelaide publisher Wakefield Press will publish an as yet untitled anthology of works by First Nations writers, supported by funding from the Australia Council for the Arts. The anthology will...

Scrivenor wins CWA New Blood Dagger

Friday, 7 July 2023
Hayley Scrivenor’s Dirt Town (Macmillan) has won the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for debut fiction in the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2023 Dagger Awards. CWA judges described Scrivenor’s...

S&S acquires Le’s ’36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem’

Friday, 7 July 2023
Simon & Schuster (S&S) imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the book-length work of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le via Fiona Baird...

Canberra Writers Festival 2023 program announced

Thursday, 6 July 2023
Canberra Writers Festival (CWF) has announced its 2023 program to be held 16–20 August in Canberra/Kamberri under the theme of ‘Power Politics Passion’. The opening night will feature a curated...

Hachette Australia acquires Armstrong picture book series

Thursday, 6 July 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to the first two picture books in a new series by Gamilaroi man, ABC television presenter and former AFL player Tony Armstrong. The George...

German book market slightly down in 2022

Thursday, 6 July 2023
Sales of books in Germany fell 1.9% in 2022 compared to the previous year, reports Publishing Perspectives. Germany’s publishers and booksellers association, Börsenverein, reported that turnover for the year totalled...

The Monthly launches books podcast; Rubbo, Chin-Dusting create bookselling podcast

Thursday, 6 July 2023
The Monthly has launched a new books podcast, Read This. The weekly podcast, to be hosted by the magazine’s editor, former Sydney Writers’ Festival artistic director and former Wheeler Centre director Michael Williams...

Affirm to represent David Fickling Books

Thursday, 6 July 2023
Affirm has announced it will take on sales and distribution of UK independent publishing house David Fickling Books (DFB). Based in the UK, DFB began as an imprint of Scholastic,...

APA Rising Star 2023 shortlist announced; BookUp program revealed

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlist for the 2023 Rising Star award. The five shortlisted professionals, who each began their publishing careers in the past 10 years,...

Dank’s ‘We Come with This Place’ wins ALS Gold Medal

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The winner of the Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is Debra Dank for We Come with This Place (Echo). The judges called the book ‘a generous, moving gift to...

Christmas 2023 all wrapped up: Local fiction

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Books+Publishing rounds up Australian publishers’ top local fiction titles releasing in time for Christmas 2023. Also see our features for nonfiction as well as children’s and YA titles. Familiar names...

Forster awarded 2023 Reading Australia Fellowship

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The Copyright Agency has named Bridget Forster, a Victorian teacher with over 20 years of experience, the 2023 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English and Literacy and teacher librarians....

Johnstons announce sale of Collins Booksellers

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Duncan and Diana Johnston have announced the sale of the Collins Booksellers franchise, with 25 franchised outlets sold to owners of the Moonee Ponds Collins store, Will and Laura Smith....

UK Society of Authors welcomes legal action against OpenAI

Wednesday, 5 July 2023
The UK Society of Authors (SoA) has welcomed the news that authors in the US are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, reports the Bookseller. The class action lawsuit, brought in...

Ash Barty on ‘Ash Barty: Champion’

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Ash Barty is an Australian former professional tennis player and cricketer from Queensland. Those who pick up the new Young Readers edition of her memoir, Ash Barty: Champion (HarperCollins), ‘will...

artsACT announces funding recipients

Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government arts agency artsACT has announced funding for several literature-related projects among its list of recent Arts Activities grant recipients. Successful applicants include: Tania McCartney, for...