Publishers

A new campaign has been launched to help authors hold publishers to account when it comes to sustainability.

Tree to Me has been created by the Society of Authors, which says the campaign "adds authors' voices to efforts to achieve net zero in the publishing industry".  Read more

Writing and publishing a book about a controversial public figure is like diving into shark-infested waters, says ABC investigative journalist Louise Milligan. She told her Adelaide Writers' Week audience that if she'd written her 2017 award-winning book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Cardinal Pell today, she wondered if it would even be published.  Read more

Managing director of the Booksellers Association (BA) Meryl Halls has thanked publishers for their "ongoing support for the BA and bookselling" in an "unpredictable and sometimes unsettling" 2022 but called on them to be "commercially supportive of bookshops" and to invest practically and emotionally in the bookselling sector to ensure it survives what has the potential to be a "brutal" year in  Read more

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos came up with the slogan "Get Big Fast" because he knew size was crucial to exacting ever lower prices from suppliers.  Read more

As 2022 began, the U.S. trade publishing business was dominated by what has been called the Big Five-Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan.  Read more