Charts this week
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Old School:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Everyday Super Food Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph 3 Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom...
Charts this week
Monday, 14 December 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Old School:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Everyday Super Food Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph 3 Guinness World Records 2016...
Sally Hepworth’s ‘The Things We Keep’
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
‘Imagine the trauma of being diagnosed with dementia in your 30s and placed into aged care. Sally Hepworth explores this tragic premise in her third novel, which avoids excessive sadness...
Future reading: 2016 publishers’ preview
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
As the year draws to a close, Books+Publishing asks publishers to look ahead to the new year and nominate their top 2016 fiction, nonfiction and children’s and YA titles.
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Sales Fiction—Pantera Press has sold North American rights to Killing Adonis (J M Donellan) and the first seven books in the ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ (Sulari Gentill) to Poisoned Pen Press...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
‘Colouring books have performed well across the whole market for much of the year and I think that has encouraged more people into shops who've clearly been buying other things...
Redgum Book Club launches children’s imprint
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Redgum Book Club has announced it will launch a children’s book imprint in 2016. The imprint, Redgum, is set to release its first title in the first quarter of 2016, with...
Inaugural NZ LGBTIQ literary festival to be held in February
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
New Zealand author and Auckland Writers Festival co-founder Peter Wells has announced the inaugural LGBTIQ writers festival samesame but different will run from 12-14 February 2016 as part of the...
UK Society of Authors calls for higher festival fees
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has called on literary festivals to reconsider what they pay authors after survey results found most authors are being paid within the...
Pantera Press signs first international rights deal
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Pantera Press has signed its first international rights deal with the sale of North American rights to the first seven books in Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ series and J M...
Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced
Monday, 7 December 2015
The 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction Fever of Animals (Miles Allinson, Scribe) The Other Side of the World (Stephanie Bishop, Hachette)...
Charts this week
Monday, 7 December 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Old School:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Guinness World Records 2016 Guinness World Records 3 Everyday Super Food Jamie...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
‘The PIRs should finally be abolished, buried and cremated so they don’t rise like zombies in a quite different future’—former Wiley MD Peter Donoughue argues for the repeal of parallel...
Leanne Hall’s ‘Iris and the Tiger’
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
‘Twelve-year-old Iris Chen-Taylor is on a mission from her parents: she’s been sent to visit her Great Aunt Ursula in Spain to discover who will inherit her grand estate’ …...
Black Inc. and Hachette: how the removal of PIR will affect our business
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
The federal government’s recent announcement that it plans to remove parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books has been heavily criticised by the publishing industry. Books+Publishing asked two publishers, Black Inc....
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Nonfiction—Exisle has sold Polish rights to Younger Skin in 28 Days (Karen Fischer); Japanese rights to The Happiness Trap; and Italian rights to Mindfulness for Life (Craig Hassed & Stephen...
Bates launches children’s book publisher ‘About Kids Books’
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Children’s book author Di Bates has launched a new children’s book publisher, About Kids Books. Bates told Books+Publishing the company will publish fiction for readers aged up to 12 years,...
HarperCollins announces #LoveOzYA anthology
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
HarperCollins has announced it will publish a young adult anthology in May 2017 inspired by the #LoveOzYA campaign, featuring 10 short stories by a selection of Australian YA authors. Writer...
Charts this week
Monday, 30 November 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Old School:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Guinness World Records 2016 Guinness World Records 3 Everyday Super Food Jamie...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
‘There is a wide range of views within the book industry, and even amongst booksellers, about the impact that this will have on the sector’—ABA CEO Joel Becker responds to...
PIR debate: historical perspectives
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
In 2008 the Australian Productivity Commission announced a review into parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books, drawing some passionate responses from the book industry. Revisit the responses from author Garth Nix, publisher...
Rebecca Sparrow’s ‘Ask Me Anything’
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
‘What differentiates this book from other teen self-help books is that it speaks unequivocally to young girls’ … read Sherri Kalow’s full review here.
SPN conference returns to Melbourne; indie publishers strong in nonfiction, reports BookScan
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) fourth Independent Publishing Conference returned to the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 19-21 November after being held in Sydney last year. SPN membership manager Hannah...
CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards 2015 winners announced
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are: Best Resource in Primary Education ‘Connectors’ fiction series (Jill Eggleton,...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold German rights to Band of Gold (Deb Challinor) to Weltbild. Spinifex Press has sold German rights to Figments of a Murder (Gillian Hanscombe) and Imago (Francesca...
Affirm acquires ‘The Birdman’s Wife’ at auction
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Affirm Press publisher Fiona Henderson has acquired local and Commonwealth rights at auction to Melissa Ashley’s debut novel The Birdman’s Wife from Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. The novel, which...
Charts this week
Monday, 23 November 2015
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Old School:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Everyday Super Food Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph 3 Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom...
Children’s book sales up 20% in China last year
Monday, 23 November 2015
Children’s book sales in China rose 20% in 2014 and are up 13% in 2015 to date, according to figures from China’s book sales data company Open Book reported in...
Almond wins ‘Guardian’ children’s fiction prize
Monday, 23 November 2015
David Almond has won this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for A Song for Ella Grey (Hodder Children’s), a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Almond’s novel was chosen...
‘Illuminae’ film rights sold to US producers
Monday, 23 November 2015
The film rights to Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman’s YA novel Illuminae (A&U) have been sold to Plan B Entertainment—a US production company owned by Brad Pitt—and Warner Bros studio, with...
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