New literary journal, student press; Age Book of the Year shortlists; Michael Gifkins Prize longlist
Date: 24 April 2024Category: This week’s news
In this week's news are two new ventures: new independent publishing house Vitagraph Publishing has launched Written Off, a new literary journal dedicated to Australian literature; and student-run Elephant Page... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold the Swedish rights to The Italian Marriage (Jenna Lo Bianco, Macmillan), on behalf of Jacinta di Mase Management; Italian rights to Why Do... Read more
No newsletter on Thursday
Date: 24 April 2024Category: B+P announcements
Due to the Anzac Day public holiday, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published on Thursday, 25 April.
PEN America cancels 2024 Literary Awards ceremony
Date: 24 April 2024Category: International news
In the US, PEN America has cancelled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was to be held on 29 April, reports Publishers Weekly. It comes after 28 authors withdrew books... Read more
Unlock Books+Publishing
Date: 24 April 2024Category: Classifieds
Unlock Books+Publishing, Australia’s number-one source of news about the book industry, keeping subscribers up to date with the latest book industry news, events, features, interviews, opinion, personnel changes, job advertisements... Read more
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Date: 24 April 2024Category: Promotion
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HarperCollins UK partners with AI company on audiobooks
Date: 23 April 2024Category: International news
HarperCollins UK has announced a partnership with US-based audio AI company ElevenLabs to create audiobooks for its non-English language business, reports the Bookseller. Under the partnership, ElevenLabs' text-to-speech technology will... Read more
Books in the media this weekend, 20–21 April
Date: 19 April 2024Category: Books in the media
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Deep Water (James Bradley, Hamish Hamilton) The End of the Morning (Charmian Clift,... Read more
Spotify reports 25% of Premium users ‘engaging’ with audiobooks
Date: 18 April 2024Category: International news
Data released by Spotify shows that 25% of the platform’s Premium users are ‘engaging’ with its audiobooks offering, reports the Bookseller. Spotify said users aged 18 to 34 make up... Read more
Remaining big five publishers join PRH in Iowa lawsuit
Date: 17 April 2024Category: International news
In the US, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster, along with Sourcebooks, have joined Penguin Random House (PRH) as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Iowa to block the book... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 17 April 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Poetry Giramondo has sold Hasib Hourani’s debut poetry book, rock flight (September), about ‘the dispossession and occupation Palestinians are faced with on the ground and across the diaspora’, to New... Read more
Hazard to leave Hachette, BookPeople conference program, translators losing work to AI
Date: 17 April 2024Category: This week’s news
Headlining this week's news, Hachette Australia and New Zealand announced that group publishing director Fiona Hazard is leaving the role ‘to pursue other opportunities’. In other local news, BookPeople has... Read more
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Date: 17 April 2024Category: Promotion
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Fragile Creatures (Khin Myint, Black Inc.)
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Reviews
Debut author Khin Myin’s Fragile Creatures is a remarkable memoir in many ways. Myin’s writing is gracious and honest; at its core, his life story is devastatingly sad. The opening chapter reveals... Read more
Affirm acquires Ferguson ‘feminist manifesto’
Date: 16 April 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled second nonfiction book from Hannah Ferguson. Described by the publisher as a ‘no-bullshit, no-frills guide to your twenties’, Ferguson’s 'new feminist... Read more
A third of translators report losing work due to AI
Date: 15 April 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 13–14 April
Date: 12 April 2024Category: Books in the media
AI and publishing: Concerns beyond copyright
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 10 April 2024Category: Rights round-up
Stager, Godwin to be inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame; Vogel to end; Small Press Distribution closes
Date: 10 April 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 10 April 2024Category: Promotion
Puffin UK to launch graphic novel imprint
Date: 9 April 2024Category: International news
HarperCollins hopes to announce new date for Wilson memoir ‘in coming weeks’
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news
The ‘Australian’ announces new fiction prize as Vogel ends
Date: 8 April 2024Category: Local news
Books in the media this weekend, 6–7 April
Date: 5 April 2024Category: Books in the media
S&S Aus launches Summit Books, appoints Palfreyman publishing director
Date: 3 April 2024Category: Local news News
Bleedthrough: censorship and book banning in Australia
Date: 3 April 2024Category: Features
Spotify extends audiobook streaming to Aotearoa New Zealand
Date: 3 April 2024Category: Local news
2024 VIPs; Ena Noël winners; APA announces George Robertson Award winners, changes to board
Date: 3 April 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 3 April 2024Category: Promotion
Spineless Wonders, AAWP announce new novella prize
Date: 2 April 2024Category: Awards Local news
Small Press Distribution closes in the US
Date: 2 April 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 30–31 March
Date: 28 March 2024Category: Books in the media
Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 28 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
B+P Easter publishing schedule
Date: 28 March 2024Category: B+P announcements
Rights round-up
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Australians in London: ‘Plenty of deals’ at ‘electric’ LBF
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news
PRH 2023 results flat, despite revenue rise
Date: 27 March 2024Category: International news
ABIAs book shortlists; MWF, BWF programs; Marr wins Indie Book of the Year
Date: 27 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
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Date: 27 March 2024Category: Promotion
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Date: 27 March 2024Category: Classifieds
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Date: 27 March 2024Category: Classifieds
Because I Love Him (Ashlee Donohue, Magabala)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Scribner acquires Beecher’s ‘The Men Who Killed the News’
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
‘Greenwild’ wins 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year
Date: 25 March 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 23–24 March
Date: 22 March 2024Category: Books in the media
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History longlist
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Asian-Australian booksellers championing diversity
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama to change hands
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news News
Woehlert and Lake list Imprint Booksellers for sale
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news News
CBCA shortlists, Yarros tops ebook charts, local publishers on Bologna Prize shortlist
Date: 20 March 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 20 March 2024Category: Promotion
Thames & Hudson Australia to distribute Enchanted Lion
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Classifieds
Media & communications coordinator, Queenscliffe/remote
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Jobs
Cristy Burne on ‘Ultra Violet’
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Publishers ask court to uphold finding against Internet Archive
Date: 19 March 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 March
Date: 15 March 2024Category: Books in the media
Fullagar wins 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
SWF 2024 program released, Needham wins MUD Literary Prize, International Booker Prize longlist announced
Date: 13 March 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 13 March 2024Category: Promotion
Shankari Chandran on ‘Safe Haven’
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging (Cher Tan, NewSouth)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Cora Seen and Heard (Zanni Louise, Walker)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Sort Of Books acquires UK rights to De Kretser novel
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Zhan receives 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
No newsletter on Monday
Date: 8 March 2024Category: B+P announcements
Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 March
Date: 8 March 2024Category: Books in the media
Former PRH, Macmillan executives launch new profit-share publishing venture
Date: 7 March 2024Category: International news
Rights round-up
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Features
What influences book sales? ‘It’s still maddeningly difficult to tell,’ says Richard Charkin
Date: 6 March 2024Category:
Ockham 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Awards
Amazon ebook anticompetition lawsuit to proceed
Date: 6 March 2024Category: International news News
Stella longlist, gender pay gaps in publishing and bookselling, Booktopia revenue and profit down
Date: 6 March 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 6 March 2024Category: Promotion
Bookings are closing soon for Think Australian’s Bologna issue, out 21 March
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Classifieds
Professional development and events manager, Sydney
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Jobs
The Mistress of Dara Island (Averil Kenny, Echo)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
Gender pay gaps revealed for large Australian booksellers
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Local news
US diversity baseline survey shows ‘incremental’ gains
Date: 5 March 2024Category: International news
Spotify adds audiobook-only subscription offer
Date: 4 March 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 March
Date: 1 March 2024Category: Books in the media
HarperCollins acquires Gorman’s ‘Lost Pleasure’
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Kat Muscat Fellowship 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Gender pay gaps revealed for larger Australian publishers
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Pantera acquires Lenton debut ‘Spite Pie’
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Self-publishing platform secures funding for AI-powered publishing
Date: 28 February 2024Category: International news
Daisley on Walter Scott longlist; Forge promoted at A&U; Overland, Island prize winners
Date: 28 February 2024Category: This week’s news