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Books+Publishing has collated company closing dates for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. (See table below.) The Books+Publishing office will close on Friday, 15 December and reopen Monday, 8... Read more |
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Nielsen BookScan reports that this year to date (YTD), to the week ending 9 December, the Australian Book Market overall declined (-3%) in value on the same time as a... Read more |
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Creative Australia has announced the Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025–2028. Among the 159 organisations in Creative Australia’s multi-year investment, 14 literature organisations are listed. Creative Australia also... Read more |
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The 2023 Australian Society of Authors (ASA) survey of members has found ‘a trend towards authors being paid a rising royalty in their publishing agreements’, with 40% of respondents indicating... Read more |
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Author, editor and accessibility consultant Fiona Murphy has won the 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship. Murphy will use the fellowship to work on her second book, ‘Livelihood’, a narrative nonfiction essay... Read more |
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University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced it has become ‘carbon positive’ this year, through making operational changes to reduce carbon emissions and offsetting the carbon it produces directly. ‘We... Read more |
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Hay House Australia’s operations will continue as normal following the acquisition of the publisher by Penguin Random House (PRH), according to managing director Leon Nacson. Nacson told Books+Publishing that the... Read more |
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According to Nielsen BookData, the official Australian BookScan Christmas number one bestseller, Heartstopper Volume 5 (Alice Oseman), sold 12,300 copies in Australia last week, while Australian consumers have bought over... Read more |
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Top 10 print bestsellers* Fourth Wing (Rebecca Yarros, Piatkus) RecipeTin Eats: Dinner (Nagi Maehashi, Macmillan) Yellowface (Rebecca F Kuang, William Morrow) The 169-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Puffin)... Read more |
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A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. This week’s round-up will be updated as information becomes available. National The Saturday Paper Bright... Read more |
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