Books in the media this weekend, 30–31 March
Date: 28 March 2024Category: Books in the media
A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper Grief Is for People (Sloane Crosley, Serpent's Tail) Lead Us Not (Abbey... Read more
Australian Book Design Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 28 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
The shortlists for the 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, presented by the Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA), have been announced. The shortlisted titles in selected categories are: Best designed commercial... Read more
B+P Easter publishing schedule
Date: 28 March 2024Category: B+P announcements
Due to the Easter long weekend, the Books+Publishing newsletter will not be published tomorrow, Friday, 29 March or Monday, 1 April. The deadline for classifieds and job advertisements in the next... Read more
Rights round-up
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Light at Lavelle (Paullina Simons) to Poland, Italy and Israel; Crimson Lake, Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight (Candice Fox) to Russia; Red Leaves (Paullina Simons)... Read more
Australians in London: ‘Plenty of deals’ at ‘electric’ LBF
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news
A strong contingent of Australian publishers attended the 2024 London Book Fair—which reported overall trade visitor attendance of around 300,000 across the three-day fair—with representatives from Affirm, Allen & Unwin... Read more
PRH 2023 results flat, despite revenue rise
Date: 27 March 2024Category: International news
While Penguin Random House (PRH) recorded a 7% revenue rise worldwide for the full year 2023—to €4.53 billion (A$7.51b), up from €4.22 billion (A$7.00b) in 2022—profit dropped slightly, down by... Read more
ABIAs book shortlists; MWF, BWF programs; Marr wins Indie Book of the Year
Date: 27 March 2024Category: This week’s news
The Australian Publishers’ Association this week announced the book shortlists for the 2024 ABIAs; both the Brisbane and Melbourne Writers Festivals announced their 2024 programs; Copyright Licensing New Zealand has... Read more
Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Local news News Rights and acquisitions
Walker Books has acquired world rights to Splodge!, a middle-grade nonfiction book from cookbook author and media personality Alice Zaslavsky. The publisher said that this book ‘will look at everyone’s... Read more
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Date: 27 March 2024Category: Promotion
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Date: 27 March 2024Category: Classifieds
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Date: 27 March 2024Category: Classifieds
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Because I Love Him (Ashlee Donohue, Magabala)
Date: 26 March 2024Category: Reviews
Because I Love Him is an intelligent and insightful reply to the question, ‘Why are you with him?'. As a society, we're beginning to realise that it's the wrong question... Read more
Sterlin wins Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Meanjin (Brisbane) poet Svetlana Sterlin has won the 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award for her unpublished book-length collection ‘If Movement Were a Language’. Selected from a shortlist of... Read more
Scribner acquires Beecher’s ‘The Men Who Killed the News’
Date: 25 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Men Who Killed the News by Crikey publisher Eric Beecher under its Scribner imprint. This work of nonfiction is... Read more
‘Greenwild’ wins 2024 Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year
Date: 25 March 2024Category: International news
In the UK, Greenwild: The world behind the door (Pari Thomson, illus by Elisa Paganelli, Macmillan) is the overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, reports the Bookseller. Now... Read more
Books in the media this weekend, 23–24 March
Date: 22 March 2024Category: Books in the media
ABIAs 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History longlist
Date: 21 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
Aus publishers’ latest acquisitions
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian feature
Meet the agent: Lisa Fuller at Alex Adsett Literary
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Think Australian profile
Asian-Australian booksellers championing diversity
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Features
Rights round-up
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
The Bookshop Bowral and Kiama to change hands
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news News
Woehlert and Lake list Imprint Booksellers for sale
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Local news News
CBCA shortlists, Yarros tops ebook charts, local publishers on Bologna Prize shortlist
Date: 20 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Promotion
Thames & Hudson Australia to distribute Enchanted Lion
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Classifieds
Media & communications coordinator, Queenscliffe/remote
Date: 20 March 2024Category: Jobs
Cristy Burne on ‘Ultra Violet’
Date: 19 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Publishers ask court to uphold finding against Internet Archive
Date: 19 March 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 16–17 March
Date: 15 March 2024Category: Books in the media
Fullagar wins 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Date: 14 March 2024Category: Awards Local news
The party’s over: Publicists, burnout and a ‘far more creative’ role
Date: 13 March 2024Category: Features
SWF 2024 program released, Needham wins MUD Literary Prize, International Booker Prize longlist announced
Date: 13 March 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 13 March 2024Category: Promotion
Shankari Chandran on ‘Safe Haven’
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Features Interview
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging (Cher Tan, NewSouth)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Cora Seen and Heard (Zanni Louise, Walker)
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Reviews
Sort Of Books acquires UK rights to De Kretser novel
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Zhan receives 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship
Date: 12 March 2024Category: Awards Local news News
No newsletter on Monday
Date: 8 March 2024Category: B+P announcements
Books in the media this weekend, 9–10 March
Date: 8 March 2024Category: Books in the media
Former PRH, Macmillan executives launch new profit-share publishing venture
Date: 7 March 2024Category: International news
Rights round-up
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Rights round-up
Book publicity in the TikTok age: What moves the needle now?
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Features
What influences book sales? ‘It’s still maddeningly difficult to tell,’ says Richard Charkin
Date: 6 March 2024Category:
Ockham 2024 shortlists announced
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Awards
Amazon ebook anticompetition lawsuit to proceed
Date: 6 March 2024Category: International news News
Stella longlist, gender pay gaps in publishing and bookselling, Booktopia revenue and profit down
Date: 6 March 2024Category: This week’s news
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Promotion
Bookings are closing soon for Think Australian’s Bologna issue, out 21 March
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Classifieds
Professional development and events manager, Sydney
Date: 6 March 2024Category: Jobs
The Mistress of Dara Island (Averil Kenny, Echo)
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Reviews
Gender pay gaps revealed for large Australian booksellers
Date: 5 March 2024Category: Local news
US diversity baseline survey shows ‘incremental’ gains
Date: 5 March 2024Category: International news
Spotify adds audiobook-only subscription offer
Date: 4 March 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 2–3 March
Date: 1 March 2024Category: Books in the media
HarperCollins acquires Gorman’s ‘Lost Pleasure’
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Kat Muscat Fellowship 2024 shortlist announced
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Gender pay gaps revealed for larger Australian publishers
Date: 29 February 2024Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Pantera acquires Lenton debut ‘Spite Pie’
Date: 28 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Self-publishing platform secures funding for AI-powered publishing
Date: 28 February 2024Category: International news
Daisley on Walter Scott longlist; Forge promoted at A&U; Overland, Island prize winners
Date: 28 February 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 28 February 2024Category: Promotion
Conversation launches books and ideas newsletter
Date: 27 February 2024Category: Local news
Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award 2023 shortlist announced
Date: 27 February 2024Category: International news
PRH to turn Grantham facility into new hub for PRH US in Europe
Date: 26 February 2024Category: International news
Books in the media this weekend, 24–25 February
Date: 23 February 2024Category: Books in the media
UK indies struggling to find distribution post-Grantham
Date: 21 February 2024Category: International news
Rights round-up
Date: 21 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Perth Writers Weekend programming remains unchanged, despite open letter
Date: 21 February 2024Category:
Kroetsch appointed Writers SA CEO, Cultural Fund grants for literary orgs, Funder on inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction longlist
Date: 21 February 2024Category: This week’s news
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Date: 21 February 2024Category: Promotion
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $440k in Cultural Fund grants
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Local news
Kroetsch appointed Writers SA CEO
Date: 20 February 2024Category: Local news News
Glasgow Worldcon chair promises transparency following Hugo censorship
Date: 19 February 2024Category: International news
Funder longlisted for inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
Date: 19 February 2024Category: Awards Local news
Books in the media this weekend, 17–18 February
Date: 16 February 2024Category: Books in the media
B&N plans to open five stores in Chicago angers Volumes
Date: 15 February 2024Category: International news
Amazon removes King Charles titles reportedly generated by AI
Date: 14 February 2024Category:
Booktopia results down, Ena Noël shortlists, rural and regional writers’ festivals
Date: 14 February 2024Category: This week’s news
Read the latest Publishers Weekly
Date: 14 February 2024Category: Promotion
Have you booked your advertising for Think Australian’s Bologna issue?
Date: 14 February 2024Category: Classifieds
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Date: 14 February 2024Category: Classifieds
Robinson receives Scotland fellowship
Date: 13 February 2024Category: Local news
Spears memoir most listened to as Spotify pays publishers ‘tens of millions’
Date: 13 February 2024Category: International news
Booktopia reports first-half results down, revises forecast
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Local news
Affirm acquires Micallef anthology
Date: 12 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions
Books in the media this weekend, 10–11 February
Date: 9 February 2024Category: Books in the media
European publishers welcome EU agreement on AI Act
Date: 8 February 2024Category: International news
How international markets performed in 2023
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Features
Yee wins at VPLAs, Vivendi plans to put Hachette on stock market, moves at Scribe and Ultimo
Date: 7 February 2024Category: This week’s news
Rights round-up
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Rights round-up
Indigo considers offer to take chain private
Date: 7 February 2024Category: International news
Larrikin acquires Betoota Advocate series
Date: 7 February 2024Category: Local news Rights and acquisitions