Hachette UK lifts entry-level salaries, boosts pay transparency
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Hachette UK has announced it is raising its entry-level salaries to a minimum of £24,000, will share salary ranges at higher levels of seniority and will introduce transparency on its...
Masson appointed SPN chair, Webster steps down
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
The Small Press Network (SPN) has appointed Christmas Press publisher Sophie Masson as president, replacing Michael Webster, who has stepped down after six years in the role. Webster, who was...
‘Honeybee’ named Dymocks Book of the Year 2020
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Craig Silvey's novel Honeybee (A&U) has been named Dymocks Book of the Year for 2020. Chosen from a shortlist of six, Silvey's novel was voted for by Dymocks booksellers across the country,...
Australia Council announces $2m Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
The Australia Council has announced $2 million in funding has been allocated to the new Re:imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives fund. Offered in two streams—‘cultural and creative solutions’ and ‘industry collaborations'—the...
Wakefield acquires Webster’s ‘That Thing I Did’
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to YA novel That Thing I Did by Allayne Webster, via Jane Novak. ‘That Thing I Did is a rollicking road trip with a...
How did picture book sales fare during lockdown?
Monday, 30 November 2020
In her final op-ed as Books+Publishing’s Junior columnist for 2020, Adele Walsh looks at how the sales of new picture books—the most tactile of reading experiences—fared during lockdown, and recommends a few...
Southern-Reid wins Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Award 2020
Monday, 30 November 2020
The winners of the 2020 Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime, have been announced. Bermagui, NSW–based writer Jessica Southern-Reid won the $1500 first prize for her story about...
WestWords wins Western Sydney business award
Monday, 30 November 2020
Western Sydney not for profit literary organisation WestWords has won the Excellence in Arts and Culture category in the 2020 Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence. The awards acknowledge the...
‘The Eighth Life’ wins Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Monday, 30 November 2020
The Eighth Life (Nino Haratischvili, trans by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, Scribe) has won the UK’s Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, reports the Bookseller. The Eighth Life, an...
Day wins Patrick White Award
Monday, 30 November 2020
Novelist Gregory Day has been named the winner of the $15,000 Patrick White Award for 2020. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his 1973...
HarperCollins acquires Pung, Ng children’s books
Monday, 30 November 2020
HarperCollins Children’s Books Australia has acquired world rights to two books by author Alice Pung and illustrator Sher Rill Ng at auction via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia and...
MTC to adapt Pung’s ‘Laurinda’
Friday, 27 November 2020
Alice Pung’s YA novel Laurinda (Black Inc.) will be adapted for the stage, as part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s (MTC) Next Stage writers’ program and the Playwrights giving circle. Actor...
SPN Book of the Year Award shortlist announced
Friday, 27 November 2020
The shortlist for the Small Press Network (SPN) book of the year award has been announced. The shortlisted books are: Forgotten Corners: Essays in search of an island’s soul (Pete...
Court dismisses defamation case against Cannane, HarperCollins
Friday, 27 November 2020
A federal court judge has dismissed a defamation case brought by two doctors against HarperCollins and author Steve Cannane relating to Cannane’s 2016 book Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story...
Bertelsmann to acquire S&S
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House (PRH), has announced it will acquire Simon & Schuster (S&S) from media company ViacomCBS for US$2.175 billion (A$2.95b). In a statement, Bertelsmann...
Beatles bio wins £50k Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction
Thursday, 26 November 2020
English writer and critic Craig Brown has won the £50,000 ($90,900) Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for One Two Three Four: The Beatles in time (Fourth Estate). Brown's biography tells the...
PRH NZ announces scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH NZ) has announced a new publishing scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students. The Penguin Random House Māori and Pasifika Publishing Scholarship aims to reduce barriers...
Dovey wins 2020 Bragg Prize for Science Writing
Thursday, 26 November 2020
Ceridwen Dovey has won the 2020 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for ‘True Grit’, first published in Wired. Dovey receives $7000. Her winning article explores the unexpected problems...
Christmas closing list 2020
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Company Last day of business in 2020 First day of business in 2021 About3 (trading as CoInfo) Wednesday, 23 December (closing midday) Thursday, 14 January Alliance Distribution Services Closed only...
Art work: Fiona McGregor on ‘Buried Not Dead’
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Reviewer Cher Tan describes Fiona McGregor's essay collection Buried Not Dead (Giramondo, February), which brings together art criticism, memoir and reportage written over 25 years, as a 'lively and unpretentious' work...
A window on the world: Stephanie Smee’s career journey
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Stephanie Smee is a Sydney-based French translator who worked as a lawyer before pivoting to literary translation. She has recently translated books including Hannelore Cayre's Dagger Award–winning crime novel The...
Hardie Grant Children’s launches new illustrated imprint
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (HGCP) has announced the creation of Bright Light, a new illustrated imprint that will publish 20 titles a year exploring privilege, race, equality, the environment, bodies...
PA to aggregate diversity statistics
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
In the UK, the Publishers Association (PA) will aggregate publisher statistics on the diversity make-up of their books, reports the Bookseller. After a number of big publishers confirmed they were...
Booktopia, Amazon Australia to use robots for fulfilment
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Booktopia and Amazon will implement the use of robots in their Australian fulfilment centres in 2021. Booktopia announced it will trial autonomous robots at its Lidcombe Distribution Centre in Sydney...
Hueston awarded 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Text Publishing director and a senior editor Penny Hueston is the winner of the 2020 Australian Academy of the Humanities Medal for Excellence in Translation for Being Here: The life...
Wright resigns from PRH
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) head of trade sales Kaye Wright has resigned after almost 12 years in the role. Wright told Books+Publishing the role was ‘my most favoured in...
CBCA restructures board, confirms 2021 Book Week theme
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has appointed Wendy Rapee as its new chair, and restructured its board, reducing its size from 12 directors to eight. The restructure of...
Simsion, Baxter novel adaptations receive Screen Aus funding
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
A film adaptation of Graeme Simsion's novel The Best of Adam Sharp (Text) and a series based on Ella Baxter's forthcoming debut New Animal (A&U, March) are among 42 projects sharing...
Silvey, Gillard, Bennett among first guests announced for 2021 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas program
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Perth Festival has announced the first guests scheduled to appear as part of its 2021 Literature & Ideas program, which will be spread across 12 days from 5–28 February 2021....
ASA: More than half of full-time writers earn below $15k per year
Monday, 23 November 2020
A survey of writers by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has found that author earnings are ‘disastrously low’. The survey found that 53.6% of respondents who said they were...
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