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... Read more |
Company Last day of business in 2016 First day of business in 2017 Allen & Unwin Friday 23 December (Closing 1pm) Tuesday 3 January Alliance... Read more |
Publishers and distributors have one more chance to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Friday 2 December. If your business doesn’t... Read more |
Zoe Pollock has been appointed CEO of UPLIT, the new name of the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) organisation. Pollock, who was previously head of development... Read more |
Melissa Lucashenko has been named the 2016 Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Author Fellow, worth $80,000 after the prize money doubled from its inaugural year in... Read more |
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Anne-Marie Priest... Read more |
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Text Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) to Dirk Kurbjuweit’s Fear to Orion in an eight-publisher auction, brokered by Sarah... Read more |
Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has been awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, worth $160,000 tax-free over two years. Holland-Batt is the author of two poetry collections,... Read more |
Anthony Pizzinga from Penguin Random House was named as this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year at the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Victorian booksellers and... Read more |
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Four Australian authors whose work shares ‘common themes’ have created a writers collective to improve their chances of reaching bookstores. Brendan Murphy, who is contracted... Read more |
Bloomsbury Australia will mark the 20th anniversary of ‘Harry Potter’ in 2017 with a series of book events and festival performances by theatre artist Nadia... Read more |
Queensland-based publishing software company Typefi has won the Small Business category at the Australian Export Awards, which were hosted by Austrade and the Australian Chamber... Read more |
The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing NSW Grants for early career writers, an emerging writing organisation, and a writer... Read more |
The winners of the 2016 Overland Story Wine Prize have been announced. Melbourne-based writer Cameron Watson won the $4000 first prize for his piece ‘Sweeping’,... Read more |
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) has announced the recipients of its annual booksellers awards. Supplier Customer Service Person of the Year Awards (joint winners)... Read more |
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Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird finished on top of Angus & Robertson Bookworld’s ‘Top 130 Books Ever’ readers’ poll, run for the first time... Read more |
The winners of the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards 2016 have been announced. The winners in each category are: Primary Toitoi: A Journal for... Read more |
In the UK, the Oxford Literary Festival has ‘rebalanced its budgets’ and will pay authors £150 to speak at its 2017 festival and for all... Read more |
In China, sales of children’s books are up 15% year-on-year in value terms in 2016 to date, on the back of double-digit surges in recent... Read more |
In the UK, US journalist and author William Finnegan has won the £28,000 (A$46,900) William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for his surfing... Read more |
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The Good Immigrant (ed by Nikesh Shukla), an essay collection written by emerging black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, has been voted Britain’s favourite... Read more |
Lonely Planet has released its full-year results for the 2015, revealing a 6.7% growth in turnover from £16.1m (A$27.1m) in 2014 to £17.2m (A$28.9m) in... Read more |
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In the UK, Sebastian Mallaby’s The Man Who Knew (Bloomsbury) has won the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. Chosen... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2016 Costa Book Awards have been announced. The four titles shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award are: This... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Czech and Brazilian rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to Mlada Fronta and Record, respectively; Italian and Taiwanese... Read more |
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The original screenplay of J K Rowling’s latest ‘Harry Potter’ outing, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Little Brown) has debuted at the top... Read more |
‘Thank You Dish is a whimsical picture book from Trace Balla, author and illustrator of Rivertime and Rockhopping. The book centres on Grace and Mama,... Read more |
‘I think there is a need for generational change in several big and medium-size Australian publishers, and a program such as this—which bridges the gap between experienced and non-experienced publishing professionals—is a great idea’—Affirm Press sales and marketing director Keiran Rogers reflects on the SPN mentorship program.
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Marie-Louise Ayres has been appointed as director-general of the National Library of Australia for a five-year term. Ayres has served in senior management roles at... Read more |
The State Library of Queensland’s signature program team have won the engagement category at the 2016 Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards (GAMAA) for the exhibition... Read more |
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has joined Professions Australia, the peak body for professional associations. ALIA CEO Sue McKerracher said it joined as... Read more |
Ireland will expand its ‘staffless’ library scheme to a further 23 libraries in 2017, reports the Irish Times. Under the ‘My Open Library’ initiative, libraries... Read more |
Earlier this year, the Small Press Network (SPN) launched a mentorship program that matched eight Victoria-based SPN members with established publishing professionals. One of the... Read more |
Melbourne-based writers’ collective Subterranean Ink is made up of four Australian authors whose work shares ‘common themes’. ‘By coming together, we create not only a... Read more |
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s annual Trivia Night will be held tonight, Wednesday 30 November, from 6pm to 9pm at the Fitzroy Town Hall. The Trivia... Read more |
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) is holding two End of Year Drinks events to celebrate the organisation’s third year. The Sydney event will be... Read more |
United Book Distributors wishes to advise the following service changes for the Christmas/New year period.
From 14 November 2016 to 1 January 2017, the minimum invoice value will be reduced to $150.
Orders must be received by 2pm AEST on cutoff dates to meet ‘Deliver By’ dates below.
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Territory |
Area |
Deliver By
23/12/2016 |
Deliver By
30/12/2016 |
| ACT |
Canberra |
21/12/2016 |
28/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Albury |
21/12/2016 |
28/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Central NSW |
20/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Hunter Region NSW |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Newcastle |
20/12/2016 |
23/12/2016 |
| NSW |
North Coast NSW |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Riverina NSW |
20/12/2016 |
23/12/2016 |
| NSW |
South Coast NSW |
20/12/2016 |
23/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Sydney |
21/12/2016 |
28/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Western NSW |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| NSW |
Wollongong |
20/12/2016 |
23/12/2016 |
| NT |
Alice Springs |
15/12/2016 |
20/12/2016 |
| NT |
Darwin |
15/12/2016 |
20/12/2016 |
| NT |
Northern Territory |
14/12/2016 |
19/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Brisbane |
20/12/2016 |
23/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Cairns |
15/12/2016 |
20/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Cape York |
13/12/2016 |
16/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Central Coast QLD |
16/12/2016 |
21/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Mackay |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| QLD |
North Coast QLD |
15/12/2016 |
20/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Outer South East QLD |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Rockhampton |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| QLD |
South East QLD |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Townsville |
16/12/2016 |
21/12/2016 |
| QLD |
Western QLD |
14/12/2016 |
19/12/2016 |
| SA |
Adelaide |
21/12/2016 |
28/12/2016 |
| SA |
Mining SA |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| SA |
Mt Gambier |
21/12/2016 |
28/12/2016 |
| SA |
North West SA |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
| SA |
South East SA |
20/12/2016 |
23/12/2016 |
| TAS |
Hobart |
15/12/2016 |
20/12/2016 |
| TAS |
Launceston |
15/12/2016 |
20/12/2016 |
| TAS |
Tasmania |
14/12/2016 |
19/12/2016 |
| VIC |
Melbourne |
21/12/2016 |
28/12/2016 |
| VIC |
Wodonga |
21/12/2016 |
28/12/2016 |
| WA |
Broome |
14/12/2016 |
19/12/2016 |
| WA |
Central WS |
14/12/2016 |
19/12/2016 |
| WA |
Northern WA |
12/12/2016 |
15/12/2016 |
| WA |
Perth |
16/12/2016 |
21/12/2016 |
| WA |
Southern WA |
15/12/2016 |
20/12/2016 |
| NZ |
South Island |
16/12/2016 |
21/12/2016 |
| NZ |
North Island |
19/12/2016 |
22/12/2016 |
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Pages 246 and 247 of Wray Delaney’s An Almond for a Parrot, ISBN 9780008182564, are blank. HarperCollins Publishers Australia are issuing a recall notice for the book.
Please apply for a No Fault return by emailing ra.request@harpercollins.com.au providing ISBN, Title, quantity and return reason RECALL.
New stock will be available from 23 November 2016.
HarperCollins apologises for the inconvenience.
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The last days for guaranteed delivery before Christmas are:
- 16 December for WA & Perth
- 19 December for QLD, SA, NT, VIC, NSW, Brisbane & Adelaide
- 20 December for Sydney and Melbourne
The office will be closed for Public Holidays only.
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Madonna Duffy has over 25 years’ experience in publishing in Australia and the UK. She has previously worked for publishers such as Pan Macmillan and Penguin Books (in Sydney and in London) and has worked at The University of Queensland Press since 2002, first as Managing Editor, and since 2006 as its Head of Publishing. She has lead the acquisition of fiction, nonfiction and academic books, and published authors such as David Malouf, David Brooks, Matthew Condon, Kristina Olsson and Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners Gabrielle Carey and Sarah Holland-Batt. Duffy has been a member of many industry committees and boards and regularly gives guest lectures and speaks at industry and community events.
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Thames & Hudson Australia are pleased to announce that they are now distributing Tara Books for the first time in Australia.
Tara Books, an independent press in South India, publishes picture books for both adults and children. They specialise in beautiful, tactile books made entirely by hand, from the paper to the printing and binding. Their print workshop is run according to fair trade practices. Watch the process here: https://vimeo.com/151117123.
For all enquiries please contact Thames & Hudson on 03 9646 7788, or your sales rep.
For orders please contact ADS on 02 43901300.
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Affirm Press is delighted to announce that a reprint of Dennis Lillee: The Illustrated Autobiography will be arriving at UBD on Tuesday, 6 December.
There are only 5000 copies available so order now to secure your Christmas stock, as this will be the final reprint for 2016.
Place your order with UBD or contact your Simon & Schuster sales representative.
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