Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, and is also descended from Gooreng Gooreng and Wakka Wakka peoples. Her debut YA novel Ghost Bird won numerous awards... Read more
Country (Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson, illus Cheryl Davison, Wild Dog)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
Country is a celebration of earth and sky, sun, moon and stars—central to First Nations Culture. Through intricate, warm and entrancing artwork by renowned artist and Walbunja, Ngarigo woman Cheryl... Read more
How to Measure the Ocean (Inda Ahmad Zahri, A&U Children’s)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
How to Measure the Ocean by scuba diver and surgical doctor Inda Ahmad Zahri prompts and encourages children aged 4–8 to interact with their environment scientifically and mathematically. In the... Read more
Key account manager (parental leave cover), Sydney
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Jobs
Hardie Grant Publishing Hardie Grant Publishing (HGP) has a reputation for originality and innovation. Our books are conversation-starting, creative, intelligent, and commercial, and we pride ourselves on our diverse list... Read more
Head of marketing and publicity, Melbourne
Date: 17 January 2024Category: Jobs
Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd Position: Head of Marketing and Publicity Thames & Hudson Australia is looking for a dynamic Head of Marketing & Publicity to manage our growing... Read more
Time to Rest (Jack Carty, illus Natasha Carty, Scholastic)
Date: 5 December 2023Category: Friday Unlocked reviews Reviews
Husband and wife team Jack and Natasha Carty have collaborated on a new children’s book for the first time. Time to Rest is written as a lullaby, with songwriter and poet... Read more
BookHub and Your Bookstore: New connections between ANZ booksellers and readers
Date: 25 October 2023Category: Features
Since Bookshop.org and before, local brick-and-mortar stores have been pondering how best to reach online shoppers in the local market. Could the recently launched BookHub and Your Bookstore websites in... Read more
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand launches BookHub
Date: 18 October 2023Category: Local news
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand (BSANZ) has launched a consumer-facing centralised website called BookHub for book sales from bricks and mortar bookstores in that market. The new BookHub site follows a... Read more
Stubbs wins 2023 CBCA Nan Chauncy Award
Date: 21 August 2023Category: Awards Local news
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced Jenny Stubbs as the 2023 recipient of the Nan Chauncy Award. Named after the Tasmanian children’s author, the biennial Nan Chauncy... Read more
Publishers flock to Threads
Date: 25 July 2023Category: Features
Meta, the owners of Instagram and Facebook, launched the new app Threads—a very similar platform to Twitter—on 5 July, gaining 100 million users in only five days, as those frustrated... Read more
Publishing manager, Canberra
Date: 19 July 2023Category: Jobs
AIATSIS The role of Publishing Manager is available for immediate start up to 30 June 2024 and will be filled via a labour-hire arrangement through a recruitment agency. The Publishing... Read more
Country Town (Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway, illus Louise Hogan, Ford St)
Date: 12 July 2023Category: Reviews
Country Town is the first picture book for both historical novelist Isolde Martyn and Aboriginal Studies teacher Robyn Ridgeway. From a fusion of interesting factoids about real Australian towns, Martyn... Read more
Survey finds self-published author income increasing
Date: 18 April 2023Category: International news
A survey conducted by UK-based organisation the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) has found that self-published authors earn more than those who are published by traditional presses, with average incomes... Read more
Sunday Skating (Andrea Rowe, illus by Hannah Sommerville, HGCP)
Date: 11 April 2023Category: Reviews
This picture book is as warm and tender as a sunset glow upon a band of friends. Award-winning author and illustrator duo Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville follow the triumph... Read more
Nominate for $10,000 maritime history prizes
Date: 18 January 2023Category: Classifieds
Nominations are invited for the 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize of $8000 and the 2023 Community Maritime History Prize of $2000. The awards are co-sponsored by the... Read more
Production coordinator, Melbourne
Date: 23 November 2022Category: Jobs
True story: 2023 nonfiction preview
Date: 16 November 2022Category: Features Title preview feature
Publishing manager, Canberra
Date: 17 August 2022Category: Jobs
Books yule love: 2022 Christmas children’s and young adult
Date: 6 July 2022Category: Features Junior Title preview feature
Publishing manager, Canberra
Date: 22 June 2022Category: Jobs
Transit Lounge acquires Meehan historical novel ‘An Ungrateful Instrument’
Date: 30 May 2022Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Workshop: Using PDF mark-up effectively
Date: 9 March 2022Category: Classifieds
McKerracher to depart ALIA
Date: 14 January 2022Category: Local news
Bowen appointed ILF CEO
Date: 21 September 2021Category: Local news
Annie Raser-Rowland on ‘Let’s Eat Weeds!’
Date: 20 July 2021Category: Features Interview Profile
The Mother Wound (Amani Haydar, Macmillan)
Date: 25 May 2021Category: Daily newsletter ICYMI review Reviews Think Australian top reviews
Publisher, bookseller Facebook pages wiped of content
Date: 19 February 2021Category: Local news
The state of accessible publishing in Australia
Date: 10 February 2021Category: Features
PRH NZ announces scholarship for Māori and Pasifika students
Date: 26 November 2020Category: Local news
Book it in: 2021 children’s and YA preview
Date: 18 November 2020Category: Features Junior Title preview feature
Bookshop.org makes £65,000 in UK launch
Date: 4 November 2020Category: International news
Book Links announces new children’s historical fiction award
Date: 19 October 2020Category: Awards Junior Local news
WestWords, Booktopia launch ‘Booktober’ fundraiser
Date: 25 September 2020Category: Local news
Good Books: a new bookshop for Wellington
Date: 16 September 2020Category: Features
Bookshop.org launches in the UK
Date: 14 September 2020Category: International news
NCACL launches First Nations children’s book resource
Date: 13 August 2020Category: Junior Local news
‘Bruny’ and ‘Smashed Avocado’ optioned for TV
Date: 22 May 2020Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
US Independent booksellers rally together via Bookshop.org
Date: 6 May 2020Category: Features
Writing WA moves Love to Read Local campaign forward amid Covid-19
Date: 22 April 2020Category: Local news
Heath wins IBBY Ena Noël award
Date: 15 April 2020Category: Local news
Ten rules for successful remote working
Date: 1 April 2020Category: Features
Booktopia buys Co-op assets; campus stores to close
Date: 31 January 2020Category: Local news
Stiff competition: Pandiella, Saras, Palmisano on their challenges and successes
Date: 27 November 2019Category: Features
The Bookworm Beijing to close amid cleanup of ‘illegal structures’
Date: 7 November 2019Category: International news
New online platform to help US indies compete with Amazon
Date: 28 October 2019Category: International news
XR-affiliated group book Brisbane library room despite ban
Date: 23 October 2019Category: Library news
Judging a book by its cover: Jane Curry on the influence of Instagram
Date: 7 August 2019Category: Features Opinion
Galleys and galleries: The art and design book market
Date: 15 May 2019Category: Features Magazine feature story
New database explores diversity in children’s books
Date: 10 April 2019Category: Junior Library news
The Colonial Fantasy: Why White Australia Can’t Solve Black Problems (Sarah Maddison, A&U)
Date: 28 February 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Featured book review
EU agrees on copyright directive
Date: 15 February 2019Category: International news
UK library wins ‘transformation’ award
Date: 5 December 2018Category: Library news International
EU Parliament approves digital copyright reforms
Date: 17 September 2018Category: International news
Harlequin launches website to promote romance titles
Date: 20 August 2018Category: Local news
Introducing Giramondo
Date: 14 August 2018Category: Think Australian profile
Happy Never After (Jill Stark, Scribe)
Date: 31 May 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Girltopia (Hilary Rogers, Scholastic)
Date: 4 May 2018Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews
Boarding call for Bologna
Date: 16 March 2018Category: Think Junior editorial
Australian book industry orgs release joint statement on ‘safe workplaces’
Date: 16 March 2018Category: Local news
Book blogger spotlight: Book Bloggers Australia
Date: 13 December 2017Category: Features
Book blogger spotlight: Romancing the Social Sciences
Date: 30 August 2017Category: Daily Newsletter Feature Features
Book blogger spotlight: Babbling Books
Date: 9 August 2017Category: Daily Newsletter Feature Features
Book blogger spotlight: Reading Matters
Date: 10 May 2017Category: Daily Newsletter Feature Features
International perspectives: John Mutter and James Daunt on the book industry in the US and UK
Date: 9 May 2017Category: Features Magazine feature story
Do Not Lick This Book (Idan Ben-Barak, illus by Julian Frost, A&U)
Date: 5 April 2017Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews
Australian Lives: An Intimate History (Anisa Puri & Alistair Thomson, Monash University Press)
Date: 28 February 2017Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Small publisher spotlight: Rag and Bone Man Press
Date: 7 December 2016Category: Features
Graphic Designer, Sydney
Date: 16 November 2016Category: Jobs
Scribd adds magazines to subscription service
Date: 2 November 2016Category: International news
New Zealand Education Awards finalists announced
Date: 28 October 2016Category: Awards Junior Local news
HarperCollins UK launches ‘publisher agnostic’ events website
Date: 13 October 2016Category: International news
New combined website for PRH
Date: 16 August 2016Category: Local news
Indigo Books launches book recommendation app
Date: 1 August 2016Category: International news
A tale from two cities: Bookshop inspiration from London and Paris
Date: 8 July 2016Category: Features Magazine feature story
BBC education app promotion concerns UK publishers
Date: 19 May 2016Category: International news Junior
Shelf talk: Good sports
Date: 10 May 2016Category: Features Shelf talk
New Zealand YA review site launches
Date: 6 May 2016Category: Junior Local news
LoveOzYA launches website
Date: 15 March 2016Category: Junior Local news
OzCo VIP guests announced for 2016 SWF
Date: 26 February 2016Category: Local news
Featherston to hold second Booktown event in May
Date: 15 January 2016Category: Festivals Local news
New website for Echo Publishing
Date: 14 October 2015Category: Local news
International library news
Date: 7 October 2015Category: Library news
Interestingly Enough… The Life of Tom Keneally (Stephany Evans Steggall, Nero)
Date: 29 September 2015Category: Reviews
Visiting International Publishers program to run alongside SWF in 2016
Date: 14 September 2015Category: Local news
New website for Fremantle Press
Date: 13 August 2015Category: In brief
Musa allowed to re-enter 2015 ACT Book of the Year Award
Date: 30 July 2015Category: Local news
Quote of the week
Date: 29 July 2015Category: Local news
Interestingly Enough… The Life of Tom Keneally (Stephany Evans Steggall, Nero)
Date: 23 July 2015Category: Reviews
ABA launches upgraded bookshop events page
Date: 21 July 2015Category: In brief
Publishing Scotland launches international fellowship program
Date: 17 July 2015Category: International news
The Quarto Group creates direct-to-consumer website
Date: 10 July 2015Category: International news
PRH US selling books on Twitter
Date: 24 June 2015Category: International news
Fairfax introduces direct links to Booktopia
Date: 22 June 2015Category: Local news
PRH launches unified US website
Date: 23 April 2015Category: International news
On the virtual road: Blog tours
Date: 13 April 2015Category: Features