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Speech pathology book awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Birth–3 years age category: Let’s Play (Karen...

Scribd to change from unlimited to credit-based subscription model

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The US-based reading subscription platform Scribd—which offers formats including magazines, ebooks and audiobooks through its Everand reading platform and announced its Australian launch in 2021—is moving away from its unlimited...

‘The Truck Cat’ selected for NSS 2025

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has selected The Truck Cat (HGCP), written by Deborah Frenkel and illustrated by Danny Snell, for the 2025 National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) event. The...

Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2024 shortlist announced

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Political Book of the Year Award has been announced. Shortlisted titles, selected from a longlist announced earlier this month, are: Quarterly Essay #93: Bad...

Deadline for next week’s Weekly Book Newsletter

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday in Victoria, Books+Publishing will not publish a newsletter on Tuesday, 5 November. However, the deadline for classifieds and job advertisements for next Wednesday’s...

TT. O. wins Patrick White Literary Award, Hughes to leave Affirm, Pan Mac to move distribution to TDLC

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
In local news this week, Martin Hughes will leave Affirm Press, amid other staff changes; Left Bank Literary will dissolve in December; the Australia Institute is launching its own publishing...

QBD 2024 Book of the Year winners announced

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
QBD has announced the winners of the chain's 2024 Book of the Year. The winning titles are: Fiction The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm) Nonfiction The Voice Inside (John Farnham with...

Pan Macmillan ANZ to move distribution to TDLC

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Pan Macmillan ANZ will move its Australian and New Zealand distribution from Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) to The Distribution and Logistics Company (TDLC) in July 2025. Pan Macmillan ANZ managing...

Senior editor—children’s trade publishing, Melbourne

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Hardie Grant Publishing We are seeking a creative, experienced senior editor to join Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing, the young readers’ division of one of Australia’s leading independent trade publishers. Working...

Graphic book designer, Sydney

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Indigenous Literacy Foundation Winner of the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Children’s Literature Part-time position Hybrid working environment About ILF The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is a national charity...

Production coordinator, Sydney

Penguin Random House Distribution commits to next-day shipping

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Last Christmas, we were thrilled to achieve a 96% success rate in shipping all orders received by 2pm by the end of the next business day. As we approach the...

Thames & Hudson February new release procedures for PRHD (UBD) move

Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Thames & Hudson would like to inform our customers about the procedure for placing February new release orders, given the change of distribution to PRHD (UBD) from 1 February 2025....

YABBA Awards 2024 winners announced

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) have been announced. Winning titles and honour books in each category are: Picture storybook Macca the Alpaca (Matt Cosgrove,...

Bloomsbury ‘exploring the opportunity’ of AI deals, Sarah J Maas sales soar

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
In the UK, Bloomsbury has announced its interim results for the six months to the end of August, reporting revenue growth of 32% to £179.8 million (A$354.1m), according to the...

‘A City on Mars’ wins 2024 Trivedi Science Book Prize

Monday, 28 October 2024
In the UK, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Particular Books) has won the...

‘Personal Score’ longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal

Monday, 28 October 2024
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by local author Ellen van Neerven (UQP) is among the titles longlisted for the American Library Association’s (ALA) Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction...

Bancroft awarded 2024 Lady Cutler Award

Monday, 28 October 2024
Bronwyn Bancroft is the recipient of the 2024 Lady Cutler Award, a biennial award presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished...

City of Fremantle Hungerford Award 2024 winner announced

Friday, 25 October 2024
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes has won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for his manuscript የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope. The author receives $15,000 in prize money, a publishing contract with Fremantle...

Pi-O wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award

Friday, 25 October 2024
Victorian-based poet, publisher and editor π.ο. (Pi-O) has won the $20,000 Patrick White Literary Award. Born in Greece in 1951, π.ο. immigrated with his family in 1954 to Australia, where they...

Walkley Book Award 2024 longlist announced

Thursday, 24 October 2024
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 69th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The works longlisted for the Walkley Book Award are: Bright Shining (Julia Baird, Fourth...

Industry bodies, creators sign open letter on AI training

Thursday, 24 October 2024
In the UK, a coalition of trade bodies including the Publishers Association, the Society of Authors, Publishers’ Licensing Services, Independent Publishers Guild, Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and Association of...