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New bookstore opens in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges Archive

Tuesday, 6 February 2018
A new bookstore, Daisy Boots Book Shop, has opened in the Dandenong Ranges in regional Victoria. Located in Sassafras, the shop opened for business on 19 December 2017 and is...

Europa Editions to be distributed by NewSouth Archive

Monday, 5 February 2018
Titles from New York-based publisher Europa Editions will be distributed in Australia by NewSouth Books from March 2018. The new sales and distribution relationship constitutes, for Europa, a ‘renewed focus...

FWF expands to two festivals in 2018 Archive

Monday, 5 February 2018
The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has announced it will expand to two festivals in 2018, with the theme ‘rewriting the story’. FWF will run its first New South Wales festival in...

ABDA launches new survey for book designers Archive

Monday, 5 February 2018
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has launched a new survey to measure the health of the local book-design industry and generate data around the issues that book designers face....

Janu wins XO Romance Prize 2017 Archive

Friday, 2 February 2018
Xoum Publishing has announced Penelope Janu as the winner of the 2017 XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript for her novel ‘On the Same Page’. Janu receives a $5000...

VIPs announced for 2018 SWF Archive

Friday, 2 February 2018
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2018 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival in early May. The...

Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2018 winners announced Archive

Thursday, 1 February 2018
Melbourne-based writer Sarah Krasnostein has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her first book, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster (Text Publishing)...

Clarke to present books segment on new ABC show Archive

Thursday, 1 February 2018
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke will present a fortnightly books segment on a new ABC program hosted by journalist and commentator Stan Grant. The 45-minute program, Matter of Fact, will constitute...

Copyright Agency publishes Cornegé report on the digital revolution and marketing Archive

Thursday, 1 February 2018
The Copyright Agency has published a report by Allen & Unwin head of publicity Louise Cornegé that examines how the digital revolution has changed the way publishers market and promote...

Full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week 2018 announced Archive

Thursday, 1 February 2018
The full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 3-8 March, has been announced. This year’s festival is dedicated to children's author Mem Fox, who will be in conversation...

Scribble sells rights to ‘Rhyme Cordial’, ‘Grandma Z’ Archive

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold rights to two forthcoming children’s books. World rights (ex ANZ) to Antonia Pesenti’s board book Rhyme Cordial were sold to Phaidon ahead of its...

Berbay invited to Barcelona children’s literary and arts festival Archive

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Melbourne-based publisher Berbay Publishing has been invited by the Spanish cultural agency Acción Cultural Española to participate in FLIC Professional in March 2018. FLIC is a youth and children’s literary...

Copyright Agency introduces new nonfiction fellowship Archive

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
The Copyright Agency has announced it has boosted the value of its annual fellowship program from $120,000 to $285,000, including a new $80,000 fellowship for a specific work of nonfiction....

US producer acquires screen rights to ‘Shantaram’ Archive

Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Producers Anonymous Content and Paramount TV have acquired screen rights to Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram and its sequel, The Mountain Shadow. Deadline Hollywood reports that the producers plan to turn...

Lindgren joins BWF as guest artistic director Archive

Tuesday, 30 January 2018
UPLIT has announced Carl Lindgren as the guest artistic director for the 2018 Brisbane Writers Festival. Lindgren will serve as guest artistic director until the end of 2018, while UPLIT’s...

Fremantle Press to release three new editions of ‘A Fortunate Life’ Archive

Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Fremantle Press will release three new editions of A B Facey’s 1981 novel A Fortunate Life this year, after publication rights recently returned to the small publisher. Fremantle Press will...

PRH reveals shortlist for its inaugural literary prize Archive

Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the shortlist for its inaugural PRH Australia Literary Prize, worth $20,000. The prize aims to find and develop new Australian authors of literary fiction...

The books: Jane Harper leads strong local offering Archive

Monday, 29 January 2018
There was a strong showing from local authors in booksellers’ most-mentioned bestsellers across fiction, nonfiction and children’s. Jane Harper topped the most-mentioned fiction title list, ahead of UK author Philip...

Supply: Frustrated booksellers call for industry strategy Archive

Monday, 29 January 2018
For many booksellers, addressing the trade’s issues with delivery and availability is becoming more important with Amazon’s arrival, with stores frustrated by unreliable supply threatening their relationships with customers. Sophie...

Nielsen BookScan Christmas figures: Value and volume up; Jamie Oliver tops the bestsellers Archive

Monday, 29 January 2018
Value and volume sales were up in both the 12-week and four-week periods leading to 23 December 2017, compared to the same periods in 2016. The volume of books sold...

Publishers’ perspectives Archive

Monday, 29 January 2018
Christmas sales in 2017 were better than expected for three quarters of Australian publishers surveyed in Books+Publishing’s annual post-Christmas survey, with the remaining respondents reporting sales were ‘close to expectations’....