Book designer spotlight: Hazel Lam
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Hazel Lam began her career as a motion graphics designer before moving into publishing, and has spent the past six years working for HarperCollins. Her cover for The Lost Flowers...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 23 September 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features...
Charts this week
Monday, 23 September 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Testaments Margaret Atwood Chatto & Windus 2 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 3 The Institute Stephen King...
Book industry orgs support climate strike
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Booksellers, publishers and other industry organisations across Australia are participating in the global climate strike, taking place on Friday, 20 September. With almost 100 locations across Australia registered to strike,...
Australian book industry orgs pledge to attend climate strike
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
'Lost sales pale in significance against the threat global warming poses to our future. Candelo Books has never closed its doors on a whim … We are a small store...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover) to Polygon (see news). Martin Shaw of Alex Adsett Publishing Services...
‘The patriarchy has it coming’: Festival director Tam Zimet on Broadside
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Writers including Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld and Helen Garner have recently been announced as part of the line-up for the Wheeler Centre's inaugural Broadside feminist ideas festival. Sarah Farquharson spoke...
Book designer spotlight: Hannah Janzen
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Hannah Janzen began designing books at Sydney design studio Xou Creative, before turning to freelance, specialising in children’s books. She was recently elected president of the Australian Book Designers Association...
Charts this week
Monday, 16 September 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Pan 2 Dog Man 7: For Whom the Ball Rolls Dav Pilkey Scholastic 3 WeirDo #13:...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 16 September 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features...
The Children’s Bookshop owner Paul Macdonald on Sydney’s retail environment
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
‘Running a bookshop in Sydney is just becoming too difficult ... People are using retail space as a showroom to explore purchasing options and more and more are shopping online...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Sales Fiction Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold the film option to The Trespassers (Meg Mundell, UQP) to Triptych Pictures and Fremantle (see news). Text Publishing has sold UK and...
Book designer spotlight: Sarah Davis
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
After working for over a decade as a freelance picture book illustrator and designer, Sarah Davies joined Walker Books Australia as associate art director. She spoke to Books+Publishing for our ‘book...
We don’t need a map: The growth in illustrated travel titles
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Travellers are looking beyond traditional guidebooks for recommendations and inspiration—and publishers are finding new niche audiences in a shifting travel market. Andrea Hanke investigates the growth in illustrated travel titles....
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 9 September 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This edition features...
Charts this week
Monday, 9 September 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 Veg Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph 3 Dog Man 7: For Whom the...
The Tiny Star (Mem Fox, illus by Freya Blackwood, Puffin)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Individually, a new book by either Mem Fox or Freya Blackwood, both award-winners and bestselling children’s book creators, would be welcomed by their readers. This book combines the two, with...
Invisible Boys (Holden Sheppard, Fremantle Press)
Thursday, 5 September 2019
In the coastal town of Geraldton, several young men struggle with the restrictions placed on them by culture, parental expectations and peer pressure. With the threat of violence a constant,...
Adler on her new role at Hachette
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
‘I see an audience and I see books. Other people see an audience. For me it’s that business of engaged writing by engaged writers. People who are interested in the...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Sales Fiction Scribe has sold Polish-language rights to Invented Lives (Andrea Goldsmith) to ZPR Media. Nonfiction Hardie Grant Books has sold UK and US rights to Hidden Hand: Exposing how...
Nine million books in Beijing: Jane Curry on the Beijing International Book Fair
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Ventura Press founder and publisher Jane Curry attended this year's Beijing International Book Fair, which ran from 21–25 August. I am writing these words as I prepare to fly home...
Place of exchange: Jane Stratton on Lost in Books
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Lost in Books is a multilingual children’s bookshop in Fairfield, Sydney. A project of the Think+Do Tank Foundation, the shop’s mission is to celebrate and support multilingual literacy and creativity....
Save on advertising in PW’s Frankfurt editions
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Publishers Weekly’s title showcase is a way for publishers, agents and self-publishers to affordably advertise in PW’s Frankfurt issues, including its three Show Dailies, which are distributed at the fair. PW is...
Book designer spotlight: Andy Warren
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Andy Warren began his career at Hardie Grant before moving exclusively into children’s books at Five Mile. His recent designs include an award-winning range of publications celebrating Barbie’s 60th birthday....
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 2 September 2019
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine for a limited time. This...
Charts this week
Monday, 2 September 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The 117-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Pan 2 Dog Man 7: For Whom the Ball Rolls Dav Pilkey Scholastic 3...
Wearing Paper Dresses (Anne Brinsden, Macmillan)
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Life is tough in the Mallee in the 1950s, and when city sophisticate Elise, brimming with artistic and musical talent, is uprooted with her young children to her father-in-law’s wheat...
Tension between libraries and publishers in the ebook market
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
‘There are dark hints that the hand of Amazon is at work in the current tensions over library ebook lending, including reports that Amazon reps have been showing publishers data...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold Lithuanian-language rights to The Botanist’s Daughter (Kayte Nunn) to Leidykla Baltos Lankos. Nonfiction Fremantle Press has sold the film and television option to A Fortunate...
Publicity round-up
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Books+Publishing’s weekly publicity round-up covers forthcoming publicity for Australian and internationally authored books due to appear in Australian media over the coming weeks. Nonfiction Memoir & biography Ash Grunwald (Surf...
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