ASA: Royalties declined for more than a third of authors in 2020
Date: 14 January 2021Category: Local news
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has found that more than half (52%) of respondents to its author survey received no advance for their work, while of those who did,... Read more
UWAP to become hybrid publisher, latest awards and more
Date: 13 January 2021Category: This week’s news
In December last year, the University of Western Australia announced the university’s publishing arm will become a ‘hybrid’ publisher, with the library to take over internal management of the press.... Read more
The Gaps (Leanne Hall, Text)
Date: 13 January 2021Category: Junior Reviews
The fourth novel by 2009 Text Prize winner Leanne Hall is simultaneously harrowing and enchanting. The Gaps begins as abruptly as a slap, with a newscast declaring schoolgirl Yin Mitchell... Read more
The Missing Among Us (Erin Stewart, NewSouth)
Date: 13 January 2021Category: Reviews
The Missing Among Us is instantly enthralling. Erin Stewart profiles a number of missing persons cases, deftly and confidently straddling the line between reportage and personal response. Balancing the interviewees'... Read more
UK supply chain hit by border delays, Brexit issues
Date: 13 January 2021Category: International news
In the UK, booksellers are facing issues with goods coming into and out of Europe due to border delays and Brexit red tape, reports the Bookseller. Waterstones has suspended deliveries... Read more
Hachette announces two-year partnership with Future Women
Date: 12 January 2021Category: Local news
Hachette Australia has announced a new ‘two-year publishing and entertainment partnership’ with Future Women, a ‘premium content-led community of professional women’ founded in 2018 and designed to help its membership... Read more
German book market down 2.3% in value
Date: 12 January 2021Category: International news
The German book market was down 2.3% in value and 5.3% in volume in 2020, reports the Bookseller. The market was hit by two Covid lockdowns, the second of which... Read more
Magabala announces winner of inaugural fellowship
Date: 12 January 2021Category: Awards Local news
Magabala Books has announced Tristan Michael Savage as the recipient of the inaugural Magabala Fellowship for a mid-career author. Savage, a Brisbane-based, Kalkadoon man who grew up in Townsville, is... Read more
Limprecht awarded 2020 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship
Date: 11 January 2021Category: Awards Local news
Eleanor Limprecht has been awarded the Australian Society of Authors' (ASA) 2020 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship, worth $20,000. The scholarship is offered annually to an Australian author to provide them with... Read more
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Date: 11 January 2021Category: Promotion
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Date: 4 January 2021Category: Promotion
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Date: 21 December 2020Category: Promotion
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Date: 14 December 2020Category: Promotion
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Final ‘Daily’ for 2020 tomorrow
Date: 10 December 2020Category: B+P announcements
The final Daily newsletter for 2020 is tomorrow, Friday, 11 December. The Daily will return on Monday, 11 January 2021.
Australia Council, Create NSW, WA arts funding latest rounds announced
Date: 10 December 2020Category: Local news
Writing NSW will receive $100,000 from the Australia Council to ‘assist writers to navigate the ongoing disruption caused by Covid-19 that will enable $200,000 in payments to around 300 writers’.... Read more
February reviews round-up
Date: 9 December 2020Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 9 December 2020Category: Rights round-up
A Christmas message to European bookshops
Date: 9 December 2020Category: Features
Debut fiction you might have missed in 2020
Date: 9 December 2020Category: Features
From inertia to action: Zeitgeists, decolonisation and structural change in publishing
Date: 9 December 2020Category: Features
White launches new imprint, Booktopia lists on ASX, VPLAs shortlists
Date: 9 December 2020Category: This week’s news
Eating With My Mouth Open (Sam van Zweden, NewSouth)
Date: 9 December 2020Category: Reviews
Final ‘WBN’ for 2020
Date: 9 December 2020Category: B+P announcements
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Date: 8 December 2020Category: Awards Local news
BA, Bookshop.org respond to criticism from booksellers
Date: 7 December 2020Category: International news
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Date: 7 December 2020Category: Promotion
‘Fifth Sun: A new history of the Aztecs’ wins Cundill History Prize
Date: 4 December 2020Category: International news
‘Hamnet’ named Waterstones book of the year
Date: 3 December 2020Category: International news
Final WBN next week
Date: 2 December 2020Category: B+P announcements
Rights round-up
Date: 2 December 2020Category: Rights round-up
The sale of S&S to Bertelsmann will create a ‘book behemoth’
Date: 2 December 2020Category: Quote of the week
Walker acquires Uhlmann picture book
Date: 2 December 2020Category: Junior Local news Rights and acquisitions
Bertelsmann to buy S&S, court dismisses HarperCollins defamation case
Date: 2 December 2020Category: This week’s news
Red Ventures acquires Lonely Planet
Date: 2 December 2020Category: Local news
Publishing’s meritocracy myth
Date: 2 December 2020Category: Features
Reed to retire BookExpo
Date: 2 December 2020Category: International news
Hachette UK lifts entry-level salaries, boosts pay transparency
Date: 1 December 2020Category: International news
‘The Eighth Life’ wins Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Date: 30 November 2020Category: Awards Local news
‘A Promised Land’ debuts at number one
Date: 30 November 2020Category: Bestsellers
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Date: 30 November 2020Category: Promotion
Bertelsmann to acquire S&S
Date: 26 November 2020Category: Local news
Dovey wins 2020 Bragg Prize for Science Writing
Date: 26 November 2020Category: Awards Local news
Christmas closing list 2020
Date: 25 November 2020Category: B+P announcements
ASA writers survey, first Perth Fest guests, Booker Prize winner
Date: 25 November 2020Category: This week’s news
PA to aggregate diversity statistics
Date: 25 November 2020Category: International news
Simsion, Baxter novel adaptations receive Screen Aus funding
Date: 24 November 2020Category: Local news
ASA: More than half of full-time writers earn below $15k per year
Date: 23 November 2020Category: Local news
Pan Mac, Nosy Crow among FutureBook Awards winners
Date: 23 November 2020Category: International news
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Date: 23 November 2020Category: Promotion
Stuart wins Booker Prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’
Date: 20 November 2020Category: International news
‘The Sydney Wars’ wins inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize
Date: 20 November 2020Category: Awards Local news
Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
Date: 18 November 2020Category: Features Junior
Rights round-up
Date: 18 November 2020Category: Rights round-up
Coming of Age in the War on Terror (Randa Abdel-Fattah, NewSouth)
Date: 18 November 2020Category: Reviews
Meet Hachette Australia head of rights Sarah Brooks
Date: 18 November 2020Category: Features
Pan Mac cuts ties with Evans, PMLA shortlists announced
Date: 18 November 2020Category: This week’s news
Christmas closing list: Reminder to submit dates
Date: 18 November 2020Category: B+P announcements
Pan Macmillan ‘finalising contractual relationship’ with Evans
Date: 17 November 2020Category: Local news
UK book sales down 11% for first half
Date: 16 November 2020Category: International news
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Date: 16 November 2020Category: Promotion
Harrison wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again’
Date: 12 November 2020Category: International news
Walkley Book Award 2020 shortlist announced
Date: 11 November 2020Category: Awards Local news
A new leaf: 2021 nonfiction preview
Date: 11 November 2020Category: Features
Radnidge takes on literary at Hachette, Richell Prize winner and more
Date: 11 November 2020Category: This week’s news
Rights round-up
Date: 11 November 2020Category: Rights round-up
Christmas closing list: Submissions due
Date: 11 November 2020Category: B+P announcements
FutureBook Conference to run as virtual event
Date: 10 November 2020Category: International news
UK audiobook sales surge in lockdown
Date: 9 November 2020Category: International news
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Date: 9 November 2020Category: Promotion
Rights round up
Date: 5 November 2020Category: Rights round-up
Change for Cameron and Company
Date: 5 November 2020Category: Agency changes
Oz book sales forecast to grow 4%, Booktopia to list on ASX, latest awards
Date: 5 November 2020Category: This week’s news
LBF moved to June 2021; new director named
Date: 5 November 2020Category: International news
Bloomsbury to repay pandemic pay cuts
Date: 5 November 2020Category: Local news
Bookshop.org makes £65,000 in UK launch
Date: 4 November 2020Category: International news
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Date: 2 November 2020Category: Promotion
No ‘Daily’ on Tuesday
Date: 2 November 2020Category: B+P announcements
French bookshops to re-enter lockdown
Date: 30 October 2020Category: International news
‘Smart Ovens for Lonely People’ wins 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Date: 30 October 2020Category: Awards Local news
‘The Unforgiven’ shortlisted for UK sports book award
Date: 30 October 2020Category: Local news
Change for Better Link Press
Date: 28 October 2020Category: Agency changes
Robotham wins Gold Dagger, new publishing houses launched
Date: 28 October 2020Category: This week’s news
Rights round-up
Date: 28 October 2020Category: Rights round-up
‘Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands’ wins Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
Date: 28 October 2020Category: International news
‘WBN’ published Thursday next week
Date: 28 October 2020Category: B+P announcements
NewSouth acquires Janke’s ‘True Tracks’
Date: 27 October 2020Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Bird’s ‘The Air Year’ wins Forward Poetry Prize
Date: 26 October 2020Category: International news
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Date: 26 October 2020Category: Promotion
McGuire wins 2020 Ray Koppe Residency
Date: 22 October 2020Category: Awards Local news
‘Flames’ to be adapted for screen
Date: 22 October 2020Category: Local news
Two in three UK authors, illustrators report loss of income
Date: 22 October 2020Category: International news
No ‘Daily’ on Friday
Date: 21 October 2020Category: B+P announcements
CBCA Book of the Year winners; Watkins appointed Ultimo publishing director
Date: 21 October 2020Category: This week’s news
The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens (First Dog on the Moon, A&U)
Date: 21 October 2020Category: Junior Reviews