UK publishers furlough staff
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Penguin Random House (PRH) UK, Hachette UK and Bonnier UK are furloughing a number of their workers, reports the Bookseller. For furloughed workers, the UK government is providing grants for...
Barker launches rights agency for children’s and YA
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Former rights director and managing director at Hardie Grant Egmont Annabel Barker has launched a literary and rights agency, specialising in children’s writing and illustration. Annabel Barker Agency will sell...
Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 8 April 2020
The shortlist for the £30,000 (A$60,000) International Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Surge (Jay Bernard, Chatto & Windus) Flèche (Mary Jean Chan, Faber) Inland (Téa...
ABDA Awards shortlists announced
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Australian Book Design Awards. Chosen from longlists announced in February, the shortlisted titles in each category are:...
SWF among first recipients of $375k Copyright Agency funding, Cultural Fund grants brought forward
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
The Copyright Agency will use $375,000 from its Future Fund to offer new initiatives in response to the Covid-19 crisis. The agency has also announced it will bring forward its...
Shaw launches Shaw Literary
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Martin Shaw, formerly agent-at-large at Alex Adsett Publishing Services and book buyer for Readings, has launched his own literary agency. Shaw Literary will represent Shaw’s current list of authors, including...
NT Writers Festival postponed until October
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
The NT Writers Festival has been postponed due to Covid-19 and is now scheduled to take place from 1 to 4 October in Darwin. Festival director Fiona Dorrell said the...
Kristoff longlisted for Glass Bell Award
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
Jay Kristoff’s Darkdawn (Harper Voyager) has been longlisted for the UK’s Glass Bell Award. Presented by London bookstore Goldsboro Books, the prize celebrates the best storytelling across all genres of...
OzCo announces four-year funding; 49 unsuccessful orgs to receive extensions
Monday, 6 April 2020
The Australia Council has announced 95 arts organisations will receive Four Year Funding for 2021–24. Forty-nine currently-funded organisations that were unsuccessful this round will have their funding extended for 12...
James Patterson spearheads fundraising effort for US bookshops
Monday, 6 April 2020
In the US, author James Patterson is leading a group that is seeking to raise millions of dollars to help save US bookshops from closing permanently due to the Covid-19...
ALIA announces Covid-19 Relief Fund
Monday, 6 April 2020
The Australian Library and Information Service (ALIA) has announced it will set up a relief fund ‘specifically to help members who are experiencing a reduction in income as a result...
A&U to reduce working hours and salaries by 20%
Friday, 3 April 2020
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has made the 'precautionary' decision to seek a temporary 20 percent reduction in working hours and salary from all staff for the duration of the Covid-19...
Pan Mac Australia parent company begins ‘cost-saving’ initiative; layoffs, wage cuts in US
Friday, 3 April 2020
In the US, Macmillan Publishers has laid off an undisclosed number of employees across all divisions, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). The publisher has also temporarily reduced pay for select employees and...
Australian trade publishing revenue up 15%, unit sales up 36% year-on-year
Friday, 3 April 2020
The Australian trade publishing market has been experiencing Christmas-like sales growth as consumers purchase books for entertainment in isolation. However, international data suggests a drop off may be on its...
‘The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree’ shortlisted for International Booker
Friday, 3 April 2020
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Australian author Shokoofeh Azar (Wild Dingo Press) has been shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. This is the first time an Australian...
Korean artist Baek Heena wins 2020 Astrid Lindgren award
Thursday, 2 April 2020
In Sweden, Korean artist Baek Heena has been announced as the winner of the five million krona (A$820k) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA). Baek has published 13 picture books, including...
HarperCollins to acquire Egmont Books UK
Thursday, 2 April 2020
HarperCollins has announced its intention to acquire Egmont Books UK, as well as Egmont’s book businesses in Poland and Germany, reports the Bookseller. The transaction is for an undisclosed sum...
EWF 2020 to take place ‘entirely online’
Thursday, 2 April 2020
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), which runs from 16–23 June, usually in Melbourne, will take place online as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival organisers ‘made the proactive decision...
Scholastic sells ‘How Did I Get Here?’ in 17 territories
Thursday, 2 April 2020
Scholastic Australia has sold rights to Philip Bunting's picture book How Did I Get Here? in 17 territories across the US, UK, European and Asian markets. Dutch-language rights were sold...
In our nature: Robbie Arnott on ‘The Rain Heron’
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
The Rain Heron (Text, June), Robbie Arnott's follow-up to his 2018 debut Flames, blurs the line between reality and myth as its isolated protagonist is drawn to a soldier on...
Ten rules for successful remote working
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Pantera Press CEO Alison Green has extensive experience in working from home. Here, she shares her 10 rules for WFH success in a time of social distancing, explaining that ‘it's...
Bologna goes digital with virtual fair and rights platform
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Organisers of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) will launch a series of new digital initiatives on 4 May, reports Publishers Weekly. In light of the cancellation of this year’s...
Bertram closes temporarily
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
In the UK, wholesaler Bertram has temporarily closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, reports the Bookseller. Bertram Group CEO Raj Patel cited staff welfare as a primary concern, noting that...
OzCo re-opens Arts and Disability Mentoring Initiative; Relief Fund to open Friday
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
The Australia Council has announced it will re-open applications for the Arts and Disability Mentoring Initiative and has extended the deadline to 14 April. The initiative was among those the...
‘Most’ Dymocks stores remain open as chain announces Top 101
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
While a small number of Dymocks stores have decided to close their shopfronts during the Covid-19 outbreak, the national bookselling chain says that most stores remain open at present. Books+Publishing...
CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The shortlists for this year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Older readers The Boy Who Steals Houses...
Oz writing bodies call for additional ‘disaster response’ funding, ELR/PLR to expand to digital
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Australia’s writing organisations and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) are calling on the federal government to provide additional funding to the Australia Council ‘to boost capacity for an effective...
Bookshops, publishers eligible for wage subsidy scheme
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Bookshop and publishing house staff are among the workers who could be eligible for the federal government’s $130 billion JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme. Under the scheme, the Australian Tax Office...
CBCA shortlist announced at 12pm today
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The CBCA will announce its 2020 Book of the Year Shortlist online at midday AEDT on Tuesday March 31. CBCA national executive officer Kate Flamsteed told Books+Publishing that, in place...
French peasant saga wins Republic of Consciousness Prize
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
In the UK, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo has won this year’s Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses for his novel Animalia (trans by Frank Wynne, Text), reports the Bookseller. Del...
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