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Books+Publishing has launched a free monthly newsletter about the Australian book industry aimed at an international audience of publishers, rights managers, scouts, literary agents, and... Read more |
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The program for the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 25 August to 3 September, has been announced. Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Kim... Read more |
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Literary journal Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has announced Onyx B Carmine (S J Norman) as the winner of its inaugural unpublished manuscript award for their... Read more |
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Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced a new literary prize for an unpublished manuscript, worth $20,000, to mark the formation of the publisher’s new... Read more |
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Fifty-six projects have received a total of $1.3m from the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Funding recipients in the various... Read more |
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2017 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource—Mathematics... Read more |
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The 10 bestselling Australian fiction titles in June were by women authors, with half of the top 10 titles—including the top three—by Liane Moriarty. The... Read more |
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Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) will publish the first book in US actor and director Neil Patrick Harris’s debut children’s series, The Magic Misfits, as part... Read more |
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Canberra-based author Leife Shallcross’ novel The Beast’s Heart has been acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. The Beast’s Heart is a retelling of the... Read more |
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Melbourne-based author Justin Woolley’s YA trilogy ‘The Territory’ has been optioned for screen by Australian director Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett following negotiation by Alex Adsett Publishing... Read more |
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Text Publishing has announced the Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel, a new literary prize for New Zealand writers worth NZ$10,000. The winner will... Read more |
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A new writers festival celebrating the crime genre will be held in Sydney from 2-3 September 2017. The two-day festival, BAD, is founded by academic... Read more |
The program has been announced for the 2017 Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, which runs from 26-27 August. The festival will be headlined by British novelist... Read more |
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The Strays by Emily Bitto (Affirm) is one of six titles shortlisted for the 2017 Goldsboro Crown for Historical Debut Fiction, presented by Goldsboro Books... Read more |
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The first authors have been announced for this year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, which runs from 25-29 October in Ubud, Bali. Among the international... Read more |
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has announced the finalists for its 2017 Valerie Parv Award for an unpublished manuscript. The finalists are: Kali Anthony... Read more |
US print sales in the first half of 2017 have increase 3% in volume compared to the first six months of 2016, despite the lack... Read more |
In the UK, print sales were up 1.2% to £652.7m (A$1.1b) in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2016... Read more |
A Canadian federal court has ruled in favour of national licensing agency Access Copyright in its legal dispute with York University, finding that the tertiary... Read more |
In the UK, World Book Day (WBD) titles sales have risen by more than 50% compared to the previous year, with 469,274 copies sold in... Read more |
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold the screen option to ‘The Territory’ trilogy (Justin Woolley) to Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett (see news). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has... Read more |
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Monica McInerney’s The Trip of a Lifetime (Michael Joseph) has unseated Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wrightbooks) to claim top spot on this week’s top... Read more |
‘The Town is understated but compelling; the narrator’s deadpan voice recalls the lone existentialist figures of Sartre’s Nausea and Camus’ The Outsider, but contrasts this... Read more |
‘Publishing, like media, is being reborn in new forms, both refined and grotesque’—Author John Birmingham on the reinvention of the book publishing industry and the growing number of midlist, trade-published authors turning to self-publishing.
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Issue 3 of Books+Publishing magazine is out now! Reviews: Plenty of forthcoming Christmas highlights are among the 13 adult books reviewed in this issue, with Sofie... Read more |
News Corp Australia’s Great Australian Reading Survey, conducted in June, found that about three-quarters of children aged six to 12 and almost half of under... Read more |
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In the UK, ‘Horrid Henry’ artist Tony Ross has been named as UK libraries’ most borrowed illustrator according to Public Lending Rights data, in the... Read more |
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From audiobooks to podcasts, Brad Jefferies investigates the rising popularity of audio formats. The widespread take-up of smartphones has enabled the growth of the audiobook... Read more |
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Tonile Wortley started a crime fiction blog in 2011, but she now blogs about a broader selection of adult fiction at My Cup and Chaucer.... Read more |
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