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Rights round-up

Date: 10 April 2024
Category: Rights round-up

Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold rights to Tilda Is Visible (Jane Tara) in the following territories: Italian rights to Feltrinelli, German rights to Diogenes, and North American rights to Penguin... Read more

Running Water Community Press seeks film project funding

Date: 4 December 2023
Category: Local news

First Nations publisher Running Water Community Press (RWCP) is seeking funding for a proposed film project ‘kwatye urrewe—uplifting desert stories’. The publisher plans to collaborate with First Nations storytelling agency... Read more

Senior commissioning editor, Melbourne

Date: 31 May 2023
Category: Jobs

Monash University Job No.: 651846 Location: Clayton campus Employment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.8) Duration: Continuing appointment Remuneration: Pro-rata of $112,694 - $124,394 pa HEW Level 08 (plus 17% employer superannuation)... Read more

Bloomsbury, Impossible Creatures, BB homepage

Date: 2 May 2023
Category: Book Buzz homepage item

Logan’s Big Move (Logan Martin with Jess Black, illus by Shane McGowan, Puffin)

Date: 14 February 2023
Category: Junior Reviews

Freestyle BMX Olympic gold medalist and X Games legend Logan Martin culminates his journey to riding success in this action-packed and inspiring picture book. Co-authored by Jess Black and illustrated... Read more

Passion for poetry: Sales in the wake of ‘Dropbear’

Date: 16 August 2022
Category: Features

With sales of nearly 15,000 copies to date, Evelyn Araluen's 2022 Stella Prize winner Dropbear has defied the stereotype of poetry as a traditionally niche and low-selling genre. In our... Read more

Marketing & publicity executive, Sydney

Date: 16 February 2022
Category: Jobs

Simon & Schuster Australia Welcome to Simon & Schuster Australia, part of the ViacomCBS Corporation, one of Australia’s fastest growing publishers bringing an extensive range of locally published and international... Read more

WORD Christchurch Festival postponed; NZ lockdown extended

Date: 24 August 2021
Category: Local news

The 2021 WORD Christchurch Festival, which was due to start on 25 August, has been postponed due to uncertainty around Covid-19 alert levels and lockdowns. Organisers are working on a... Read more

Celebrating in a pandemic: Thames & Hudson Australia turns 50

Date: 14 October 2020
Category: Features

Several publishers had big plans for significant birthdays this year, until Covid came along. In the second of a series of birthday profiles, we hear about 50 years of Thames... Read more

Pham’s ‘The Coconut Children’ to be adapted for stage

Date: 7 July 2020
Category: Local news

A stage adaptation of Vivian Pham's debut novel The Coconut Children (Vintage) has been commissioned as part of Playwriting Australia's Ignition program. The Coconut Children is one of seven major... Read more

How did international book markets perform in 2019?

Date: 19 February 2020
Category: Features

Representatives from trade publications in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and China have shared insights with Books+Publishing on how their respective markets fared in 2019. Across the regions,... Read more

Publishers, suppliers owed $12.6m by the Co-op, Curious Planet

Date: 19 November 2019
Category: Local news

The Co-op Bookshop and its Curious Planet stores owed $12.6 million to publishers and toy sellers as of last week, with $8.8 million owed for stock delivered and services rendered... Read more

Young people speak out about the closure of SLV’s Centre for Youth Literature

Date: 27 March 2019
Category: Quote of the week

'Even if everything does continue on as usual ... it denies teenage and youth leaders having their own independent organisation. It's like saying YA literature isn't important enough to have... Read more