The Stella Count: 2013 gender ratios in books pages revealed
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...
‘Books+Publishing’ reviews: 83% of print books published simultaneously as ebooks; 60% of adult titles written by women
Books+Publishing has conducted an overview of its reviews pages for 2013 to reveal some interesting statistics about the Australian publishing industry. In total, 232 Australian and New Zealand originated titles...
‘Bookseller+Publisher’ 2012 reviews: 77% of print books published simultaneously as ebooks; 54% of adult titles written by women
An overview of Bookseller+Publisher’s reviews pages over the past year reveals some interesting statistics about the Australian publishing industry. In total, 239 Australian and New Zealand originated titles published in...
A picture of gender
Publishing student Kate McKenzie has conducted a detailed analysis of gender representation in CBCA award-winning picture books of the past 18 years. The findings reveal a worrying amount of gender...
Gender stereotyping in junior fiction
Gender stereotyping is rife in junior fiction, but is it a necessary evil? Children’s bookseller and book buyer Daniela Perinac reports. When Kathy Kozlowski, children’s specialist at Readings Carlton, looks...
Women writers reviewed: the Australian count
Last year, the US-based group VIDA--created to promote women in the literary arts--released these bright red and blue pie charts showing how many women and men were reviewed in, or...
In Brief
Eligibility criteria for OzCo publishing grants now onlineEligibility criteria and application details for publishing grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts are now available online...