Horman, Robinsons Books apologise for X comments
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Susanne Horman, owner of Robinsons Bookshop, has apologised for comments about diverse books posted to her X account, reported the Age yesterday. On the weekend, Instagrammer @coffeebooksandmagic posted screenshots from...
Hardie Grant to move distribution to TDLC
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Hardie Grant Publishing will move its Australian distribution from HEDS (Harper Entertainment Distribution Services) to TDLC (The Distribution and Logistics Company). Distribution with TDLC will commence on 1 July 2024,...
Authors among Australia Day honours
Monday, 29 January 2024
Several authors have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Aotearoa New Zealand children's writer and illustrator Pamela Allen has been appointed as a Member of the Order of...
A&U acquires Scolyer memoir
Monday, 29 January 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir from Australian of the Year Richard Scolyer. Scolyer and Georgina Long, co–medical directors of the Sydney-based...
Bacon nominated for Philip K Dick Award
Monday, 29 January 2024
Local author Eugen Bacon is among the six nominees for the 2024 Philip K Dick Awards. Nominated titles include: Danged Black Thing (Eugen Bacon, Apex Book Company) The Museum of...
Staff changes at Red Room Poetry
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Red Room Poetry has announced several staff changes, including appointments of joint artistic directors, a new CEO, and two new managers, as part of the organisation's 'restructured director and management...
Texas book rating law blocked in Court of Appeals
Thursday, 25 January 2024
In a development Publishers Weekly described as ‘a major victory for freedom to read advocates’, the Fifth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision to...
Ultimo acquires debut Evans novel
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Liz Evans’ debut novel, Catherine Wheel, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown in a two-book deal. The publisher described the book as 'a...
‘Better than expected’ Christmas for booksellers, despite almost a quarter reporting sales dropped
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
While a small number of booksellers (4.4%) reported an ‘excellent’ Christmas in 2023, sales for the period were down on 2022 for almost a quarter of booksellers who responded to...
Gecko Press acquired by Lerner Publishing Group
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand publishing house Gecko Press has been acquired by US Lerner Publishing Group, reported the Publishers Association of New Zealand Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ). According to an...
Hachette acquires Hampton, Daniher picture books
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Hachette has acquired world rights to two picture books celebrating First Nations culture by Taylor Hampton and Jacinta Daniher via Rochelle Fernandez at Alex Adsett Literary. According to the publisher,...
Hogan wins 2024 ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Australian poet Dan Hogan has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for their poem ‘Workarounds’. Hogan receives $6000, while the other four shortlisted poets—Judith Nangala Crispin,...
S&S acquires Aston’s ‘The Chairman’s Lounge’
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Chairman’s Lounge, an ‘explosive work of narrative nonfiction’ with 'fresh interviews and revelations' about Qantas’s handling of the Covid-19...
First Nations Storytelling funding recipients announced
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Creative Australia has announced the recipients of its Elevate: First Nations Storytelling (Literature) career development funding. The six successful applicants to share almost $60,000 through the program are: Tisha Perrurle...
Newbery, Caldecott, Printz 2024 winners announced
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
In the US, the American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals and the Printz award, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). Dave...
Atria sends influencer on ‘ultimate world cruise’
Monday, 22 January 2024
In the US, Atria Books has explained its decision to sponsor non-reader Marc Sebastian to travel the Antarctica leg of an 'ultimate world cruise', after some BookTok users criticised the...
Australian books nominated for British Science Fiction Association Awards
Monday, 22 January 2024
Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay (Scribe) and We Who Are Forged in Fire by Kate Murray (Hardie Grant Children's Publishing) are among the titles longlisted in the 2024 British Science Fiction...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2023 finalists announced
Friday, 19 January 2024
The finalists for the 2023 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Ten authors have been shortlisted for the favourite Australian romance author category. They are: Alissa Callen Amy Andrews...
ANZ authors among 2024 Dublin Literary Award longlistees
Friday, 19 January 2024
Several books by Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the €100,000 (A$166,000) International Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work...
Strong Christmas boosts 2023 book sales
Thursday, 18 January 2024
While book sales for the year overall were down on 2022 figures, 2023 finished strong, with Christmas sales up overall according to Nielsen BookScan figures. According to Nielsen, Australian sales...
‘Get Your Story Straight’ sells to Levine Querido
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Irene Vázquez at Levine Querido (LQ) has acquired world English (excl ANZ) rights and world Spanish and Dutch rights in Briar Rolfe’s graphic novel Get Your Story Straight in a...
DANZ Children’s Book Award longlists announced
Thursday, 18 January 2024
The longlists for the inaugural DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children’s Book Award have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Picture books Echo (Lisa...
New organisation to ‘certify’ fair AI
Thursday, 18 January 2024
In the US, the Association of American Publishers is among those supporting a new nonprofit organisation called Fairly Trained that aims to ‘certify fair training data use’ in generative AI,...
Roberts to leave Scribe
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Scribe Publications has announced Cora Roberts is leaving her role as publicity director after more than 12 years at the company. Scribe publisher and CEO Henry Rosenbloom said: ‘Cora has been...
Audible to cut staff
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Audible CEO Bob Carrigan, in a memo to staff, said that Audible is cutting its workforce, reports Publishers Weekly (PW). PW said the cuts are believed to be about 5%...
Explainer: Why did the costs of printing a book go up?
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
In 2022 when Books+Publishing reported on the increasing costs of print in Australia, IVE Group CEO Cliff Brigstocke said he had 'never witnessed such a challenging set of circumstances’ in...
HarperCollins acquires Dalgarno novel
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to The Travelling Library by Paul Dalgarno, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. The Travelling Library is 'a tender coming-of-age story...
Küster appointed as director of CSIRO Publishing
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Arend Küster has been appointed as director of CSIRO Publishing. Previously in the role the director, academic affairs at Springer Nature, Küster had focused on building strategic relationships with government...
Government releases interim report on Safe and Responsible AI
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
The government has released its interim report on Safe and Responsible AI in Australia. The Department of Industry, Science and Resources report acknowledges that submissions to its earlier discussion paper...
POD and the pandemic: How are publishers using print on demand now?
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
For many publishers around the world, the supply-chain chaos of the pandemic drove a move to print on demand (POD). Books+Publishing asks what role POD plays for publishers and booksellers...
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