Scodellaro wins 2024 Novel Prize
Monday, 17 February 2025
Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions have announced Ruins, Child, a debut novel from Giada Scodellaro, as the winner of the 2024 Novel Prize. The novel was chosen from 1100...
Books in the media this weekend, 15–16 February
Friday, 14 February 2025
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper After the Great Storm (Ann Dombroski, Transit Lounge) The Grapevine (Kate Kemp,...
Libraries ready to feel the love
Friday, 14 February 2025
A global day of celebration, Library Lovers' Day (LLD) is celebrated every 14 February to recognise libraries, library workers, and library users. First celebrated in Australia in 2006 by the...
‘Tracker’ longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
Thursday, 13 February 2025
In the UK, Alexis Wright’s book Tracker (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Published in the UK in January by Other Stories, the book is one...
New Australia Reads report; update from liquidators of Booktopia; Beatnik Publishing acquired by Bateman Books; festival programs and award shortlists announced
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
The industry continues to honour Michael Webster, with more tributes and details of a memorial service. Australia Reads and Monash University have released a new report into reading behaviours; the...
New Australia Reads report identifies reader types, barriers to reading
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
A new report on reading behaviour based on research conducted by Monash University and book industry initiative Australia Reads has been released. The Understanding Australian Readers report, which surveyed 1622...
Christmas 2024: Sales up for most booksellers
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Christmas sales in 2024 were up on the previous year for the majority of booksellers surveyed by Books+Publishing in its annual Christmas survey, which this year received responses from representatives...
A&U acquires new historical fiction from Rose
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to A Great Act of Love by Heather Rose, via Gaby Naher of the Naher Agency. US rights have sold to Judy Clain...
Authors say emails show ‘magnitude of Meta’s unlawful torrenting’
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
In the US, Meta emails show ‘the magnitude of Meta’s unlawful torrenting scheme’, according to a filing by a group of authors suing Meta for copyright infringement in relation to...
Varuna announces 2025 Writer’s Space Fellowship recipients
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Varuna, the National Writers' House has announced the recipients of its 2025 Writer’s Space Fellowships. Six recipients were chosen from a total of 116 submissions, in the fellowship program's first...
Pink Shorts Press acquires works by De Zilva, Cothren
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
New publishing venture Pink Shorts Press has announced its first acquisitions of new titles. The press, which plans to release books twice a year (March and August), previously announced it...
BookPeople reveals new consumer, member websites
Tuesday, 4 February 2025
BookPeople has updated the organisation’s web presence with a dedicated membership website and a new consumer-facing site. ‘Each site has been designed with a distinct audience in mind,’ BookPeople operations...
Bookshop.org turns 5, introduces ebooks
Monday, 3 February 2025
In the US, Bookshop.org has celebrated its fifth anniversary by introducing an ebook platform, available now. Discussing the development, Bookshop founder and CEO Andy Hunter told the New York Times...
How international book markets performed in 2024
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Results were mixed for international book markets in 2024. While sales were slightly up in the United States and significantly in Brazil, they were down in France, slightly down in...
Literary organisations among Copyright Agency Cultural Fund recipients
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
The Copyright Agency Cultural Fund has announced that 42 Australian literary and creative organisations will share in $754,769 in its most recent funding round. Among the literary recipients in this...
No newsletter on Monday
Friday, 24 January 2025
Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Monday, 27 January due to the public holiday. The next newsletter will be published on Tuesday, 28 January. The deadline for job ads...
PRH acquires Text Publishing
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Text Publishing has announced it will become part of Penguin Random House Australia (PRH), effective immediately. In a statement, Text said the acquisition ‘includes all of Text Publishing’. However, Text...
PRH acquires Text; Restructure, redundancies at Hardie Grant; Christmas sales up
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired Text Publishing, Hardie Grant has announced a restructure of its marketing and communications team and four redundancies; HarperCollins New Zealand has announced the retirement...
2025 Sargeson Fellows announced
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
The Frank Sargeson Trust has announced the recipients of the 2025 Sargeson Fellowship. The 2025 fellows and their projects are: Rachael King, who will work on YA fantasy novel ‘Song...
Green wins 2025 Margaret Mahy Medal
Thursday, 16 January 2025
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki has announced poet Paula Green as the 2025 recipient of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal. Said Publishers Association of New...
Local book markets down; Text Prize discontinued; authors allege Meta knowingly used pirated books
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Nielsen BookScan figures show that the Australian and Aotearoa book markets were down in the year just ended, by 3% and 6.6% in value respectively; Nagi Maehashi’s RecipeTin Eats: Tonight (Macmillan)...
Books in the media this week, 14–15 December
Friday, 13 December 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper My Glorious Defeats (Barrett Brown, Farrar Straus Giroux) Raging Grace (ed...
A year of Australian audiobooks: 2025 preview
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Audiobook lovers have plenty of local content due in 2025. Here, we round up the Australian titles highlighted by local audio publishers Bolinda and Wavesound. All our 2025 Books+Publishing preview feature articles...
New year 2025 preview: CYA
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
From the witchy to the wistful, from the fact-filled to the fantastical, publishers have pulled together their lists of highlighted children's and young adult titles for 2025. Read on to...
New year 2025 preview: Poetry
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Publishers highlight forthcoming poetry books from well-loved voices in the field—like Kirli Saunders, Omar Sakr, Grace Yee, Antigone Kefala and Eileen Chong—as well as titles from some poets newer to...
Leigh responds to petition on fixed-price book laws
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury Andrew Leigh has responded to a petition asking for Federal Parliament to introduce fixed-price laws for books in Australia. The petition, which attracted...
IPEd announces Rosie longlist
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced the longlist for the 2025 Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award, known as the Rosie. Longlisted editors—and their projects—include: Kristy Bushnell (UQP), for Love,...
Internet Archive copyright case ends
Monday, 9 December 2024
The copyright case against the Internet Archive has drawn to a close after representatives from the organisation ‘decided against exercising their last option, an appeal to the [United States] Supreme...
Books in the media this weekend, 7–8 December
Friday, 6 December 2024
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Didion & Babitz (Lili Anolik, Atlantic) Indigenous Knowledge (ed by Marcia...
New year 2025 preview: Nonfiction
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
As we head towards 2025, publishers are preparing to send a wide array of new nonfiction titles out onto our bookshelves. Among the titles publishers are keen to highlight, booksellers...
