The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2019 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held alongside the Sydney Writers’... Read more |
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Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has announced it will establish a local speakers bureau, which will coordinate PRH authors’ speaking engagements for corporate clients, and... Read more |
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The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) is advising authors to contact the Internet Archive and request the removal of their titles from the Open Library.... Read more |
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Wellington’s Unity Books has been shortlisted in the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards. Unity Books is shortlisted for the Bookstore of the Year... Read more |
Australian children’s author Paul Jennings and illustrator Allison Colpoys have been longlisted for the UK’s 2019 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals respectively. Jennings’ novel A Different Boy... Read more |
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to a memoir by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The book is described as ‘an in-depth and definitive... Read more |
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HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s memoir The Erratics, which was recently longlisted for the Stella Prize. Winner of the 2018 Finch Memoir... Read more |
UQP has announced a number of acquisitions made by publisher Aviva Tuffield across the publisher’s trade, scholarly and poetry lists. Tuffield acquired ANZ rights to... Read more |
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The Walker Books Group has acquired the first children’s book by Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell in a global rights deal. Agent and director at... Read more |
Varuna, the Writers’ House, has announced the shortlisted manuscripts for its 2019 Publisher Introduction Program (PIP). Twenty-four manuscripts by emerging Australian writers will be sent... Read more |
Twenty-five writers will pitch their work to film industry figures as part of a new initiative run by Screen Queensland (SQ) and the Queensland Writers... Read more |
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Three Australian audiobooks have been named as finalists in the 2019 Audie Awards, presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) in the US. The audiobook... Read more |
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Big Sky Publishing has sold North American and US territories rights to 17 children’s book titles to independent educational publishing house Rosen Publishing. Set in... Read more |
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Kill Your Darlings (KYD) has launched a new writing prize, designed to develop, mentor, edit and publish the work of two writers from Australian secondary... Read more |
Germany’s largest book wholesaler and distributor, KNV, has filed for bankruptcy, reports Publishers Weekly. On Thursday, 14 February, the managing directors of companies within the... Read more |
UK educational publisher Pearson is selling its US textbook business to private equity group Nexus Capital Management and is shifting its focus to digital, reports the... Read more |
Simon & Schuster worldwide revenues fell marginally from US$830 million (A$1.16bn) in 2017 to US$825 million (A$1.15bn) in 2018, reports Publishers Weekly. During 2018 domestic sales... Read more |
The European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission have made an agreement on the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single... Read more |
In the US, estimates from the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) StatShot program show that US publishers’ revenue for trade books was US$7.49 billion (A$10.57bn)... Read more |
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Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to Saudade (Suneeta Peres da Costa) to Adam Levy at Transit Books; simplified Chinese rights to The Swan... Read more |
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Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Fiction Mark Brandi... Read more |
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Three fiction titles are new to the top 10 bestsellers chart this week, with Graeme Simsion’s final book in the Rosie trilogy of romantic comedies, The Rosie Result (Text),... Read more |
‘Stranger Country is perfect for anyone who, like Tan, lives in a major Australian city and wants to know what life is like in the red-dirt... Read more |
‘I don’t care how big or how small you are. If you don’t have anything to say about the diversity of communities that now call Australia home then you’re out of touch.’—The Australia Council’s new CEO, Adrian Collette, told the ABC that arts companies must be focused on diversity if they are to be effective.
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Founding member of the Society of Editors Victoria (now Editors Victoria) Janet Mackenzie has died, aged 71. Born in Melbourne in 1947, Mackenzie graduated from... Read more |
The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) has embarked on a project to reassess and revise the contents of its earliest volumes and include entries for... Read more |
State Library Victoria (SLV) will this year offer three new fellowships alongside its regular fellowships program. The inaugural fellowships to be offered this year are:... Read more |
The National Writers Union (NWU) in the US has joined a number of authors’ associations in condemning the practice of ‘controlled digital lending’ (CDL), reports... Read more |
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The realist stranglehold on Australian publishing may be loosening, as publishers and prize panels become more open to speculative fiction, writes Rose Michael. At the... Read more |
Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that nominations are now open for the ABIA Business Awards in the categories: Publisher of the Year Small Publisher... Read more |
Abigail Nathan of Bothersome Words is running a survey to find out what sort of writing/editing/publishing assistance writers currently need, and how freelance editors can best collaborate with them. The results will be collated into a report to be released later this year. The survey is anonymous and can be found here. More detail about the project can be found here.
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