About
Scribe has been operating as a wholly independent trade-publishing house for more than 40 years. What started off in 1976 as a desire on publisher Henry Rosenbloom’s part to publish ‘serious nonfiction’ as a one-man band has turned into a multi-award-winning company with more than 25 staff members in two locations — Melbourne, Australia and London, England — as well as a scout in New York, and a dedicated publicity and marketing team on the ground in the US.
Scribe publishes over 65 nonfiction and fiction titles annually in Australia, about 60 in the United Kingdom, and as of 2017, about 30 titles in the US.
We currently have acquiring editors working in both our Melbourne and London offices. We spend each day sifting through submissions and manuscripts from around the world, and commissioning and editing local titles, in an uncompromising pursuit of the best books we can find, help create, and deliver to readers.
We love what we do, and we hope you will, too.
Sales & Distribution
Book Sellers
Scribe’s print books are sold and distributed to the book trade by the following organisations. Bookshops wishing to place orders can either contact their local sales representative or deal directly with the relevant distributor.
Individuals
All printed Scribe books can be found in all good bookstores around Australia, the US, and the UK, or you can buy directly from our website.
We also sell our e-books through various retailers, including:
- Amazon
- Apple
- Kobo
Rights
- For all rights queries please contact:
Alice Richardson, Rights and Contracts Manager
alice@scribepub.com.au
Foreign Rights Co-Agents
Permission Requests
If you wish to reproduce an extract from a Scribe publication, please read and observe the following guidelines before submitting a request.
Please submit permissions requests in writing to info@scribepub.com.au and include the following information with your request:
Information About Scribe Book:
- Title
- Author
- Edition, if applicable
Page reference and word count of the extract you wish to reproduce
Information about your project:
- Title of your publication
- Author
- Publisher
- Language
- Expected publication date • Format (print, eBook, etc.)
- Projected print run
- Projected retail price
- Distribution territory (ANZ, British Commonwealth, World, etc.)
Please allow 4 weeks for response.
Careers
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Open applications
Freelance applications
If you are a freelance copyeditor, proofreader, typesetter, or indexer and you would like to be added to our list of contacts, please fill out our application form.
Translator applications
If you are a translator who would like to be added to our list of contacts for translations and/or reader reports, please fill out our application form.