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Wednesday, 10 January 2024
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Production coordinator, Melbourne
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Text Publishing Text is looking for a Production Co-ordinator to join our busy, highly efficient team. We’re looking for someone with excellent production and prepress skills coupled with excellent communication...
Product coordinator, Sydney
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Hachette Australia Hachette Australia has an exciting opportunity to join our high-performing and collaborative Product team as a Product Coordinator. This is a permanent full-time entry-level position based in our...
Production editor, Melbourne
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Meanjin (Melbourne University Publishing) Meanjin is looking for an outstanding Production Editor to work towards the highest publication standards, the best relationships with our readers and writers, and the efficient...
Change for NIAS Press
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Publisher: NIAS Press ISBN prefix: 978-87-7694; 978-87-87062; 978-87-91114 Old distributor: None New distributor: Eurospan Changeover date: 1 January 2024 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Key account manager, Sydney
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Bloomsbury We are seeking a Key Account Manager to join our dedicated team and drive the sales of our exceptional books and digital content to online, library, airport and specialist...
UK sales value up in 2023 as volume declines
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
In the UK, an increase in average selling prices meant the market was up by 1.3% in 2023, despite volume sales being down by 5%, reports the Bookseller. According to...
APA announces 2024 REP editors
Tuesday, 9 January 2024
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the 15 editors selected for the 2024 Residential Editorial Program (REP), an intensive program for mid-career editors to work on an unpublished manuscript...
Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced
Monday, 8 January 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Poem of the Dead Woman’ by Judith Nangala Crispin (NSW) ‘Immigration Triction’...
Hoover, Yarros buoy adult fiction as US print sales decline
Monday, 8 January 2024
In the US, print sales declined 2.6% in 2023, according to Circana BookScan figures, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). Sales were down 4.1% after the first nine months of the year,...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 2024 shortlists for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. In each category, the shortlists and highly commended titles are: Fiction ($25,000) But the Girl (Jessica...
Murphy awarded 2024 Peter Blazey Fellowship
Friday, 15 December 2023
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...
ASA 2023 survey results: Earnings ‘perilously low’, rising royalty agreements increase
Thursday, 14 December 2023
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...
Creative Australia funds literature organisations and individuals
Thursday, 14 December 2023
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...
Hoskins wins 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Academic and public historian Ian Hoskins has won the 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize for his book Australia and the Pacific: A history (NewSouth). Australia and the...
Local creators nominated for 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Four local authors, illustrators and organisations have been announced as candidates for the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s richest prize for children’s literature. The Australian candidates are: Ursula...
Indie Book Awards longlist; Magabala fellowship, grants; Curry launches VenX
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Jane Curry, founder of independent book publisher Ventura Press, has established 'digital sibling' VenX, a membership-based digital community for writers that provides self-publishing options, with editorial services offered through a...
Vale Dale Spender
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Editor, author and Copyright Agency founding member Dale Spender has died. The Copyright Agency writes: 'We are saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Dale Spender AM, pioneering feminist,...
Vale Shirley Barber
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Australian children's author and illustrator Shirley Barber died on Tuesday, 12 December in Melbourne, aged 88. Brolly Books publisher Emma Borghesi writes: 'Shirley Barber, one of Australia’s most loved children’s...
Production co-ordinator, Melbourne
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Text Publishing Text is looking for a Production Co-ordinator to join our busy, highly efficient team. We’re looking for someone with excellent production and prepress skills coupled with excellent communication...
Introducing Pitch Boot Camp
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Does your publicity team need a boost? some extra training? Fresh perspective? Pitch Projects is now running book publicity boot camp sessions. Whether you’re a small publisher wearing many hats...
Have you booked your Books+Publishing 2024 advertising?
Wednesday, 13 December 2023
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Werner Film Productions options Legge memoir screen rights
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Werner Film Productions (WFP) has optioned the screen rights to Kate Legge’s memoir Infidelity & Other Affairs, in a deal negotiated by Thames & Hudson (T&H) Australia on behalf of...
Writers Victoria announces 2023 Writeability fellows
Monday, 11 December 2023
Writers Victoria has announced the 2023 Writeability fellowship recipients. This year’s recipients are: Grace Hall for ‘Off Track’, ‘a young adult novel exploring how physical pain changes a person’s world’...
Magabala announces annual fellowship, creative development grants and scholarship recipients
Monday, 11 December 2023
Magabala Books has announced the 15 First Nations creators who will receive the publisher's annual fellowship, scholarships and Australian Indigenous Coffee (AIC) Creative Development Grants, sharing in over $65,000 of...
UK in-house staff turning to freelance work in ‘growing trend’
Thursday, 7 December 2023
In the UK, in-house publishing staff are turning to freelance work to avoid burnout, in what the Bookseller calls ‘a growing trend’. The publication spoke with several professionals in publishing...
Indie Book Awards 2024 longlists announced
Thursday, 7 December 2023
The longlists for the 2024 Indie Book Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books, have been announced. The titles longlisted in each category are: Fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton,...
Submit your Christmas closing dates
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
To be included in Books+Publishing’s annual list of publishers’ and distributors’ trade closing dates for the holiday period, please complete our Christmas closing dates survey by noon, Tuesday, 12 December....
Hachette updates and expands inclusive policies
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Hachette Australia has announced the introduction of several new and updated inclusive policies, which it said ‘promote a safe and supportive environment for all employees; and recognises the critical role...
Edmondson wins FT Book of the Year for ‘Right Kind of Wrong’
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
In the UK, Right Kind of Wrong: Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive (Amy Edmondson, Cornerstone Press) has won the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year...
