About
We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we work, and pay our respects to their elders, past and present.
Founded in 2000, Black Inc. is an independent Australian publisher of quality non-fiction and fiction books, based in Melbourne.
Our imprints include the Quarterly Essay journal and La Trobe University Press books. We love ideas and stories. We are passionate about important new works of history, politics, biography, criticism and current affairs, as well as novels that open up new worlds.
Black Inc. provides its authors with skilled and carefully tailored editing, packaging and promotion, and draws on the distribution muscle of United Book Distributors (Penguin Random House), Australia’s biggest and most effective printed book distributor, to maximise sales.
We sell rights to overseas publishers and audio and film producers, and have a thriving list of books licensed from other territories. We are renowned for our high-impact media and marketing campaigns and have a powerful digital platform.
