Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm on Friday 4 December. If your business doesn’t appear on this week’s... Read more |
Company Last day of business in 2015 First day of business in 2016 Allen & Unwin Thursday 24 December (Closing 1pm) Monday 4 January Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) Closed public... Read more |
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete... Read more |
Former Murdoch Books CEO and former president of the Australian Publishers Association Juliet Rogers has been appointed executive director of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Rogers replaces Angelo Loukakis,... Read more |
The Straight Dope by journalist Chip Le Grand (MUP) has won the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award. Le Grand’s book, which was chosen from a shortlist of... Read more |
Former Crikey editor Sophie Black has joined the Wheeler Centre as head of programming while Emily Sexton is on maternity leave. Black was most recently editor-in-chief at Private Media, which... Read more |
HarperCollins has appointed Jaki Arthur as head of marketing communications in its general books division. In the newly created role, Arthur will cover local and international fiction and nonfiction titles... Read more |
Amazon has signed a seven-year lease for its new Australian headquarters, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The lease is for more than 9260sqm of office space—estimated to be over four... Read more |
Children’s book author Di Bates has launched a new children’s book publisher, About Kids Books. Bates told Books+Publishing the company will publish fiction for readers aged up to 12 years,... Read more |
HarperCollins has announced it will publish a young adult anthology in May 2017 inspired by the #LoveOzYA campaign, featuring 10 short stories by a selection of Australian YA authors. Writer... Read more |
Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister. The list contains ‘books and articles that the Prime Minister, or any... Read more |
The University of Sydney’s Charles Perkin Centre has announced a $100,000 fellowship for a writer in residence to ‘join the fight against obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease’. Starting in mid-2016,... Read more |
Melbourne writer Calanthe Black has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) 2015 Ampersand Prize for unpublished writers for her untitled YA sci-fi novel. Black’s entry was chosen from more than 250... Read more |
Potton & Burton managing director Emma Radcliffe has been awarded the inaugural W E and M L Forde Publishing Scholarship to the Yale Publishing Course, administered by the Publishers Association... Read more |
The Readings Foundation has chosen seven Victorian organisations to share $93,000 worth of grants in 2016. The grant recipients are: 3081 Angels: $10,000 to support a volunteer team to work... Read more |
The federal government’s recent announcement that it plans to remove parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books has been heavily criticised by the publishing industry. Books+Publishing asked two publishers, Black Inc.... Read more |
English singer and writer Morrissey has won the 2015 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his debut novel List of the Lost (Penguin). Morrissey’s novel was selected from a shortlist... Read more |
The winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2015 have been announced. The winners include: Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee, William Heinemann) for Best Fiction and Modern... Read more |
UK publisher insolvencies have risen 58% over the past year, according to research from accountancy firm Moore Stephens reported in the Independent. In the 2014-15 financial year, 128 UK publishers... Read more |
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