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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A tale from two cities: Bookshop inspiration from London and Paris
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Earlier this year, Readings events manager Christine Gordon embarked on a research trip to observe how the bookstores of Paris and London run their events, and to gather some inspiration...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Sales Nonfiction—UQP has sold world audio rights to Finding a Way (Graeme Innes) to Wavesound. Children’s—Scholastic has sold US and Canadian rights to I Wanna Be a Great Big Dinosaur...
Small publisher spotlight: em PRESS
Wednesday, 20 July 2016
em PRESS, based in central Victoria, released its first book The People of Gariwerd—about the Grampians’ Aboriginal heritage—in 1999. ‘The primary focus of em PRESS is in connecting people to...
Charts this week
Monday, 18 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 After You Jojo Moyes Penguin 3 The BFG (Film Tie-In) Roald...
Behind the Mike: Mike Shuttleworth on his career in children’s literature
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Mike Shuttleworth is the campaign manager for the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers the Australian Children’s Laureateship. He has also worked as an events programmer, curator and reviewer. Read...
Small publisher spotlight: Christmas Press
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
NSW-based children’s publisher Christmas Press released its first titles in 2013. ‘We wanted to bring back the kinds of books we’d always loved as children—beautiful illustrated books featuring traditional tales...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Sales Fiction—Exisle has sold Italian and Czech rights to Heartfulness (Stephen McKenzie). Text has sold US rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to St Martin’s Press, via...
Maxine Beneba Clarke’s ‘The Hate Race’
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
‘Maxine Beneba Clarke’s storytelling in The Hate Race has a heft to it that is at once steeped in history, and also exquisitely and playfully modern; it is lyrical, sincere...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 13 July 2016
‘It’s been hard for a decade or more to find much Australian poetry in bookshops, and a folk wisdom circulated that average sales for poetry volumes was miniscule’—UWA Publishing director...
Charts this week
Monday, 11 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 After You Jojo Moyes Penguin 2 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 3 The Girl on the Train...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘The richness of human possibility that is Ozlit’s stock in trade is an affront to the barren and denuded vocabulary both sides of politics employ’—incoming Picador publisher Geordie Williamson reflects...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Sales Fiction—Text has sold French rights to The Best of Adam Sharp (Graeme Simsion) to Laffont; Turkish rights to The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion) to Pegasus; French rights to The...
Dan Disney and Kit Kelen’s ‘Writing to the Wire’
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘Dan Disney and Kit Kelen suggest poetry can “offer us new ways to understand mundane injustices [and] new ways to speak out”. Grand claims, perhaps, but ones borne out by...
Expounding and expanding: Wellington’s Unity Books
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘Part of the Unity survival kit—it’ll be 49 Unity-years in September—is our determination that Unity continues as a viable forum for books, people and ideas. I know this sounds a...
Small publisher spotlight: Lacuna Publishing
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Launched in 2012, Sydney-based Lacuna Publishing publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction that ‘challenges the status quo, introduces new ideas, shares untold stories, or presents a fresh perspective’. Founder Linda Nix...
Charts this week
Monday, 4 July 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 The Girl on the Train...
Quote of the Week
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
‘A large part of our fiction list is translated, and if the pound stays at this low level it will have obviously further increase the costs involved in publishing fiction...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world French, Spanish and Italian rights to Hotel du Barry (Lesley Truffle) to HarperCollins France, HarperCollins Iberica and HarperCollins Italia, respectively; and Polish rights to Innocence...
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