International perspectives: John Mutter and James Daunt on the book industry in the US and UK
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
John Mutter, editor-in-chief of US bookselling publication Shelf Awareness, and James Daunt, MD of UK bookstore chain Waterstones and founder of Daunt Books, will deliver keynote addresses at this year’s...
Double Act: Hybrid authors on publishing both ways
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
A new breed of hybrid authors are experimenting with self-publishing alongside traditional publishing. Jackie Tang and Andrea Hanke spoke to John Birmingham, Judy Horacek and Kylie Scott about their self-publishing...
Conversation starter: Felicity Vallence shares her career journey
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Former Penguin publicist and marketing manager and passionate YA advocate Felicity Vallence shares her career journey. I joined Penguin just after their move to Camberwell, as a fresh-faced publicity assistant, and...
Under the influence: Reaching online influencers
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
As ‘old media’ books coverage shrinks, the influence of voices in ‘new media’ is becoming increasingly important. But how do publishers reach online influencers—and how are traditional influencers growing their...
Backlist bestsellers
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Andrea Hanke explores the trends behind backlist bestsellers. To get a better picture of the books that sell strongly years after their initial release, we asked Nielsen BookScan to provide a...
Back to backlist: extending the sales period beyond new release
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
How do you extend the sales period of a book past its new-release window? Brad Jefferies spoke to two local publishers and online bookseller Booktopia, which claims to sell a...
Joining the chorus: Alexandra Payne on feminist publishing
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
UQP nonfiction publisher Alexandra Payne examines the resurgence of feminist books, their viability and the price of moving from the margins to the mainstream. I have a bookcase at home that...
Pan Macmillan, Waterstones among the winners at British Book Awards
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Pan Macmillan has been named Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards for the second time in three years, reports the Bookseller. Pan Macmillan’s consumer sales were up...
Winder promoted to MD of Hachette NZ; plans for local publishing program
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Hachette New Zealand’s sales and marketing director Mel Winder has been promoted to managing director of the New Zealand business. Winder has run Hachette’s New Zealand office since 2013, when...
New ILF app to help children in remote WA community read in their first language
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has launched a new app in Ngaanyatjarra and English languages for the Warburton community in Western Australia. The app, which was developed as part of...
Clinton, Patterson collaborate on novel
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Former US president Bill Clinton and author James Patterson have teamed up to write a political thriller, which will be published by Cornerstone in June 2018, reports Publishers Weekly. The...
Affirm acquires ‘The Uncollected Plays of Shaun Micallef’
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Affirm Press has acquired a collection of playscripts by comedian Shaun Micallef, to be published next year. In a statement, Affirm publishing director Martin Hughes said the company wants to...
‘A Court of Wings and Ruin’ sets Dymocks’ record for fastest selling book this year
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
US YA author Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Wings and Ruin sold over 1300 units across Dymocks stores on its 2 May release date, making it the chain’s fastest...
Copyright Agency defends Future Fund
Monday, 8 May 2017
The Copyright Agency has defended its $15m Future Fund, to be used for advocacy and litigation in response to the threat of changes to the Copyright Act. The fund was...
Pearson shareholders vote to reject CEO’s $2.6m pay packet
Monday, 8 May 2017
In the UK, a majority of Pearson voted to reject CEO John Fallon’s £1.5m (A$2.62m) pay packet following a year in which the company made the biggest loss in its...
New Amazon policy allows third-party resellers to ‘win’ Buy Box
Monday, 8 May 2017
A new Amazon policy introduced on 1 March allows third-party sellers to compete for the Buy Box usually reserved for the publisher, reports the Huffington Post. ‘Starting in late Q1...
CBCA partners with party supplies company
Monday, 8 May 2017
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has partnered with Australian party supplies company The Party People to promote Children’s Book Week. The CBCA said the partnership will enable it...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 5 May 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains nine reviews of books publishing in June and July. The two highest-scoring titles were Kyle Hughes-Odgers’ picture-book One Thousand Trees (Fremantle Press, July) and Peter...
EC makes removal of Amazon’s ‘Most Favoured Nation’ ebook clause legally binding
Friday, 5 May 2017
The European Commission has accepted Amazon’s offer to remove its ‘Most Favoured Nation’ clauses from ebook contracts, which had required publishers to give Amazon either similar or better terms to...
Ditmar Awards 2017 ballot announced
Friday, 5 May 2017
The ballot for the 2017 Ditmar Awards was announced on 10 April. The shortlisted works include: Best Novel The Grief Hole (Kaaron Warren, IFWG) The Lyre Thief (Jennifer Fallon, HarperCollins)...
Wheeler Centre receives $300,000 for new podcasting centre
Friday, 5 May 2017
The Victorian government has allocated $300,000 to the Wheeler Centre in its 2017-18 state budget for a new podcasting centre. The Wheeler Centre will use the funds for the ‘creation, publication...
Book-to-film adaptations coming in 2017
Thursday, 4 May 2017
The second half of 2017 promises a wide selection of book-to-film adaptations, with remakes of popular classics, adaptions of new sci-fi novels and much in between. Christina Copeland rounds up...
Hawthorne, Henke and Richards receive Vic Supreme Court Inspire Awards
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Writers Susan Hawthorne, Frances Henke and Kate Richards have been presented with Inspire Awards for Best Achievement in Writing, administered by the Victorian Supreme Court’s Funds in Court Division. The...
Cece wins 2017 Text Prize
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Adelaide-based author Adam Cece has won the 2017 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for his middle-grade manuscript ‘The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened in Huggabie Falls’. The...
New ‘Books+Publishing’ reviews out now
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Books+Publishing’s latest Reviews newsletter contains eight reviews of books publishing in June and July 2017. The two highest scoring books were Steven Lang’s Hinterland (UQP, July) and Mark Brandi’s Wimmera...
Four publishers selected for Austrade China-Korea trip
Thursday, 4 May 2017
Representatives from four Australian publishers have been selected to participate in the 2017 Austrade China-Korea Publisher Visits program. The delegation, led by Penguin Random House senior rights manager Nerrilee Weir,...
Arthur C Clarke Award 2017 shortlist announced
Thursday, 4 May 2017
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2017 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: A Closed and Common Orbit (Becky Chambers, Hodder)...
Heavyweight division: Peter Carnavas on ‘The Elephant’
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Best known for his picture books, Peter Carnavas’ junior fiction novel The Elephant (UQP, July) ‘paints a portrait of a small family coming to terms with a tragedy through love,...
Crime teen investigation: Tristan Bancks on ‘The Fall’
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
In Tristan Bancks’ middle-grade novel The Fall, 12-year-old Sam Garner finds himself investigating a crime after witnessing a body falling from his apartment building. Bancks spoke to reviewer Braiden Asciak....
Carnegie Trust report ‘seriously avoids the truth’ about UK library sector decline
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
In the UK, library advocates have called for a Carnegie Trust report on the future of libraries to be withdrawn for ‘seriously avoid[ing] the truth’ about the decline of the...
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