‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ sales ‘exceed expectations’ of publisher, retailers
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Sales of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play script have exceeded expectations, according to the book’s local publisher Hachette. Hachette Australia joint managing director Justin Ractliffe told Books+Publishing...
Steven Amsterdam’s ‘The Easy Way Out’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
‘Steven Amsterdam’s previous books Things We Didn’t See Coming and What the Family Needed are heavy with apocalyptic vision and metaphor, so his latest novel will immediately strike his fans...
What is a bestseller?: Cutting the sales figures
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
When it comes to the question ‘what is a bestseller’, ‘the answer could easily be “how long is a piece of string?”’, writes Nielsen Book Australia general manager Shaun Symonds,...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Sandy Wagner Creative Agents has sold world rights to A Slow Childhood (Helen Hayward) to Editia. Exisle has sold Czech rights to Eczema Diet (Karen Fischer). Children’s—EK Books has...
Text acquires Booker-longlisted ‘His Bloody Project’; brings forward ‘Schooldays of Jesus’
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to Graeme Macrae Burnet’s 2016 Man Booker Prize-longlisted crime novel His Bloody Project, and will publish the book on 29 August. Set in the...
Small publisher spotlight: Clan Destine Press
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Genre specialist Clan Destine Press, based in regional Victoria, first began publishing in 2010. Publisher Lindy Cameron told Books+Publishing: ‘Many author friends had experienced—from their Big Publishers—the old: “No we...
A&U to publish series co-authored by NBA star Patty Mills and Jared Thomas
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Allen & Unwin has acquired a three-book junior fiction basketball series by Australian NBA player and Olympian Patty Mills and author Jared Thomas. The series is loosely based on Mills’...
ALIA Information Online conference 2017 draft program released
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has released the draft program for its 2017 Information Online conference, which runs from 13-17 February in Sydney. The keynote speakers confirmed for...
APA announces Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2016 shortlists
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. The shortlists in each category are: Primary Student Resource—Mathematics (Numeracy) ‘ORIGO Big Books for...
Australian authors shortlisted for 2016 CWA Dagger awards
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Australian authors Tim Baker and Mark Brandi have been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2016 Dagger awards. Sydney-born Baker’s ‘multi-stranded new examination of the JFK assassination’ Fever City...
PANZ Book Design Awards 2016 winners announced
Monday, 1 August 2016
The winners of this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. James K Baxter: Complete Prose (James K Baxter, Victoria University Press) designed by...
Charts this week
Monday, 1 August 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty Macmillan 2 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 3 Magic Danielle Steel Bantam...
Territory Read Awards, NT Literary Awards 2016 winners announced
Friday, 29 July 2016
The winners of this year’s Territory Read Awards and Northern Territory Literary Awards have been announced, with two authors taking out the top prize in the Chief Minister’s Book of...
Black Inc. acquires Murray’s ‘The Biographer’s Lover’
Friday, 29 July 2016
Black Inc. publisher Aviva Tuffield has acquired Australian author Ruby J Murray’s second novel, The Biographer’s Lover. Set to be published in August 2017, The Biographer’s Lover is a dual narrative that switches...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
‘My hope is that the whole book industry is allowed to enjoy not only a sales spike on release but strong sales of the book into the future’—Booktopia head of...
Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s ‘The Love of a Bad Man’
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
‘The Love of a Bad Man offers what feels like a genuinely fresh reading experience: a short-fiction collection that marries true crime with literary fiction. In each discrete story, Melbourne-based...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Monash University Publishing has sold Southeast-Asian rights to Witch-hunt and Conspiracy: The ‘Ninja Case’ in East Java (Nicholas Herriman) to National University of Singapore Press. Acquisitions Nonfiction—Monash University Publishing...
From little things, big things grow: Behind the scenes of the Kids’ Reading Guide
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Sixteen children’s book specialists have been putting together the 16th annual ABA Kids’ Reading Guide over the past month, which is due out in November. Joanne Shiells takes a behind-the-scenes...
Small publisher spotlight: Wild Dingo Press
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Melbourne-based Wild Dingo Press was founded in 2010 and specialises in stories of ‘individuals doing extraordinary things’. ‘Wild Dingo Press’s biggest success has been our first publication The Rugmaker of...
Davitt Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Sisters in Crime has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Davitt Awards for the best crime books by Australian women. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Adult novels Medea’s...
Inaugural Canberra Writers Festival program launched
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
The program for the inaugural Canberra Writers Festival, running from 26 to 28 August, has been announced. Among the artists appearing at the festival are international guests the Man Booker...
Scholastic reports gains in revenue
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
In the US, Scholastic has reported a 2.3% revenue growth to US$1.67bn (A$2.23bn), excluding the negative impact of foreign exchange, for the year ending 31 May 2016, reports Publishers Weekly....
Hachette Children’s Group to launch two new imprints
Monday, 25 July 2016
In the UK, Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has announced it will launch two new imprints from next year, reports the Bookseller. The first, Pat-a-Cake, will publish early learning titles for...
Brisbane Writers Festival 2016 program launched
Monday, 25 July 2016
The full program for the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has launched. US author Lionel Shriver will deliver the opening address on communities and belonging, joining international guests Alexei Sayle,...
Charts this week
Monday, 25 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Black Swan 3 The...
‘J K Rowling’s Wizarding World’ interactive series to Walker Books
Friday, 22 July 2016
Walker Books Australia has been awarded the sublicence for a program of interactive tie-in books for ‘J K Rowling’s Wizarding World’, ahead of the upcoming ‘Harry Potter’ spin-off film Fantastic...
SWF appoints Sawyer as head of children’s & YA programming
Friday, 22 July 2016
Sydney Writers’ Festival has appointed Clare Sawyer as its new head of children’s and YA programming. Sawyer programmed the 2016 Sydney Film Festival program and was previously general manager of...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
‘Our culture is skewed towards celebrating and supporting the young and I am not sure what can be done about it’—author Krissy Kneen asks where the support is for older...
Dymocks Glenelg wins top award at Dymocks conference for second year in a row
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
For the second year in a row Dymocks Glenelg in Adelaide has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the Dymocks national conference, which this year was held on...
Melina Marchetta’s ‘Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil’
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
‘Marchetta doesn’t shy away from the authentic emotions of her characters, her writing capturing their joy and pain as they navigate this crime through the veil of Europe’s simmering anti-Muslim...
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