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Don’t miss Independent Publishing’s July newsletter

Wednesday, 24 July 2024
Delivered 2pm, 25 July, to your inbox! Independent Publishing is an online resource and a free monthly newsletter publication filled with news and tips for independent publishers, independent authors, hybrid...

Griffith Review 2024 Emerging Voices winners announced

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Griffith Review has announced the five winners of its 2024 Emerging Voices competition: Lily Holloway, Sarah Kanake, Myles McGuire, Kobi Simpson and Emily Tsokos Purtill. Holloway is a powerlifting enthusiast...

Academic authors ‘shocked’ at Microsoft AI agreement

Tuesday, 23 July 2024
In the UK, the Bookseller reports that academic publisher Taylor & Francis has sold access to its authors’ research as part of an artificial intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft worth...

Scholastic reports 7% drop in revenue

Monday, 22 July 2024
Scholastic has reported a 7% decrease in revenue for the year ending 31 May 2024, reports Publishers Weekly. For the full year, revenue dropped to US$1.6 billion (A$2.4b), from $US...

Mayne, Mansour receive $50k Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships

Monday, 22 July 2024
Poets Chloe Mayne and Sara Mansour are among the seven recipients of the 2024 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, each worth $50,000. Mayne is a poet and a current creative doctoral...

Lanchester to step down from ASA, Booktopia orders not being filled, ACT Literary Awards winners

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Olivia Lanchester, CEO of the Australian Society of Authors, is stepping down; meanwhile, in the latest Booktopia news, the website is not taking orders, and customers with outstanding orders will...

Corpus in Extremis: A Memoir

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Bestselling author Loretta Smith shares the details of her own fascinating and incredible life; a life in which she has had to negotiate the pain, physical restrictions, and medical interventions...

Change for Vision Australia

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Publisher: Vision Australia New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 August 2024

Change for Authors Equity

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Publisher: Authors Equity New distributor: Simon & Schuster Australia Changeover date: 1 September 2024

Boutique press for sale

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Opportunity to own a boutique press. Red Paper Kite (Perth, WA) is a small, independent press, built on close collaborations, timeless stories, exquisite illustrations, and quality production. At the core...

Text announces new Helen Garner nonfiction in November

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Helen Garner’s exuberant and unexpected new work follows a season of training and matches for her youngest grandson’s under-16s footy team. The Season is a celebration of family, of the...

Have you tried a Books+Publishing Title Showcase?

Wednesday, 17 July 2024
Limited on budget? Advertise new titles to the book industry with a Books+Publishing Title Showcase. For as little as $275 (cover image included), advertising includes permanent display on B+P’s website,...

Independent Alliance records best-ever first half

Tuesday, 16 July 2024
In the UK, the Independent Alliance (IA) sales collective has, for the first time, placed above one of the ‘big four’ publishers for sales for the year to date, reports...

Buchanan wins 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize

Monday, 15 July 2024
Author Jeffrey Buchanan is the winner of the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished manuscript by an Aotearoa New Zealand writer. Chosen from a shortlist of four, Buchanan wins...

UK market down in 2024 without ‘Spare’

Monday, 15 July 2024
In the UK, book sales are down 1% on the first half of 2023, according to Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market data, a drop that can be attributed to the...

Hogan wins Mary Gilmore Award, Priest wins Magarey Medal

Thursday, 11 July 2024
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced that Dan Hogan is the winner of the 2024 Mary Gilmore Award and Ann-Marie Priest is the winner of...

Australian Jewish Book Awards adds unpublished manuscript prize

Thursday, 11 July 2024
Not-for-profit organisation Shalom Australia has announced the inaugural Australian Jewish Book Awards will include a new $4000 prize for an unpublished manuscript that engages with Jewish experience. The Award for...

RBmedia to acquire Dreamscape Media

Thursday, 11 July 2024
In the US, audiobook publisher RBmedia has agreed to acquire independent audiobook publisher Dreamscape Media, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). In a statement, RBmedia CEO Michael Paull said Dreamscape would become...

ACT Literary Awards 2024 winners announced

Thursday, 11 July 2024
The winners of the ACT Literary Awards, previously known as the ACT Notable Book Awards and presented by the Canberra writing organisation Marion, have been announced. The 2024 winners are:...

Lanchester to step down from ASA

Thursday, 11 July 2024
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) CEO Olivia Lanchester will be stepping down after five years in the role. Lanchester was appointed CEO in 2019 after four years working as the...

Educational Publishing Awards paused; Hachette appoints Naoum as publishing director; reports QBD, Dymocks, Kogan interested in Booktopia assets

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
The Australian Publishers Association has paused the Educational Publishing Awards Australia for 2024 to allow ‘time for a comprehensive review’, in order to ‘ensure future events are as valuable as...

Foot traffic up at Barnes & Noble

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
In the US, location analytics company Placer.ai has reported that, between November 2023 and May 2024, foot traffic to Barnes & Noble (B&N) stores has increased every month except January,...

Birch, Lucashenko inaugural Hage Award mentors

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Sweatshop Literacy Movement has announced multi-award-winning authors Tony Birch and Melissa Lucashenko will mentor the recipients of the inaugural Hage Award for First Nations Writers. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...

National Biography Award 2024 shortlist announced

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has announced the shortlist for the $25,000 National Biography Award. The shortlisted works, selected from a record 107 entries and including five...

Robbie Egan: ‘A centralised ecommerce platform … would be transformative’

Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Robbie Egan is CEO of BookPeople, the Australian Booksellers Association. Here, he argues that the mainstream media’s 'gloom and doom' narrative following Booktopia’s entry into voluntary administration has been 'quarantined...