#AuthorsForFireys, Perth Fest, OzCo international residencies and latest awards
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Earlier this week, the organisers of the #AuthorsForFireys campaign—which saw more than 500 authors, illustrators and publishing professionals auction items for bushfire relief—confirmed it had raised nearly $500,000 in donations...
UK book trade predicts the coming trends in 2020
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
‘The climate crisis will continue to dominate headlines [in 2020], but it will affect us more on a practical, day-to-day level, including how we operate our businesses and how we...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Sales Fiction Jeanne Ryckmans from Cameron’s Management has sold North American rights to The Mothers (Genevieve Gannon, A&U) to William Morrow (see news). Left Bank Literary has sold complex Chinese-language...
Beautiful Eggs (Alice Lindstrom, Scribble)
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
In this board book, Melbourne-based artist and illustrator Alice Lindstrom uses her stunning cut-paper style of illustration to introduce the tradition of egg decoration across a number of cultures around...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 20 January 2020
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 includes a look at...
Charts this week
Monday, 20 January 2020
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Bluey: Time to Play! Bluey Penguin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Bluey: The Beach Bluey Penguin...
The decline in new-title publishing
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
'New-title publishing has become much riskier and more expensive for all publishers. They naturally react to that by publishing fewer new titles, and that describes the tactics of just about...
Introducing the new WBN
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Welcome to the new-look Weekly Book Newsletter! In 2020, we’re streamlining the WBN to focus more on features and analysis. We’ll still round up the week’s biggest news stories here,...
Desire Lines (Felicity Volk, Hachette)
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Desire Lines is a heartrending love story between a man struggling to overcome the struggles of a deeply traumatic childhood and a woman who, frankly, deserves better. At a market...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 13 January 2020
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, 13 January 2020
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Bluey: Time to Play! Bluey Puffin 2 The Barefoot Investor Scott Pape John Wiley & Sons 3 Dog Man: Fetch-22 Dav Pilkey...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Sales Fiction Scribe has sold world audio and large print rights to Small Mercies (Richard Anderson, April 2020) to Ulverscroft. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American rights and UK &...
Title omission reveals government’s attitude to the arts
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
‘Words matter and while the loss of the word “arts” from the title of a department has been described as a technicality by the Minister in response to the outcry,...
Book bites: Starting 2020 on the right note
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Mischa Parkee, teacher and children’s specialist at Sydney’s Better Read Than Dead, shares her top children's picks for the new year. What better way to bring in the new year...
Publishers Weekly
Wednesday, 11 December 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, 9 December 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Bluey: The Beach Bluey Puffin 2 Wrecking Ball Jeff Kinney Puffin 3 Bluey: Fruit Bat Bluey Puffin 4 Bluey: Time to Play!...
Marketing for small publishers
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
‘We have to create demand for our books precisely because they are not stacked up at the front of the shop—on ‘the dick table’ as Clare Wright so memorably called...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Sales Fiction Text Publishing has sold Chinese-language rights to The Death of Noah Glass (Gail Jones) to Writers Publishing House; Czech-language rights to Bad Debts (Peter Temple) to Mystery Press;...
To market, to market: Jane Curry on marketing
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Ventura Press publisher Jane Curry argues that despite the dominance of multinational publishers, there are still opportunities for small presses to flourish—and sell plenty of copies. This is my final...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 2 December 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 December 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Wrecking Ball Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Bluey: The Beach Bluey Puffin 3 Bluey: Fruit Bat Bluey Puffin 4 Bluey: Time to Play!...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Sales Fiction Linda Kaplan of Kaplan DeFiore Agency has sold the following international rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams, Affirm): UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to...
The gift of being underrated
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
‘This is what fuels a fiction writer: the ongoing life of the ideas we love. The saddest thing about a book failing to reach an audience is not the wound...
Stiff competition: Pandiella, Saras, Palmisano on their challenges and successes
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Book marketers face many challenges. How can you experiment with new trends within a limited budget and how do you find new readers when there’s so much competition for people’s...
Charts this week
Monday, 25 November 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Wrecking Ball: Diary of a Wimpy Kid 14 Jeff Kinney Puffin 2 Bluey: The Beach Bluey Puffin 3 Bluey: Time to Play!...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 25 November 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...
High school English curriculums ignore diverse, Australian literature
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
'The demographic of Australian classrooms has changed significantly in the past 50 years. But the texts studied in English have remained remarkably stable ... this situation requires serious attention.'—Academic Larissa...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Sales Fiction Spinifex Press has sold Japanese-language rights to The Screaming of the Innocent (Unity Dow) to Eiiji Press and Italian-language rights to Edition le Assassine. University of Western Australia...
China ‘most active’ international market for Oz kids publishers: Insights from the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
A delegation of Australian publishers and agents attended this year’s China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF), which ran from 15–17 November. Wenona Byrne, Australia Council’s director of literature, reports...
Marketing to the gatekeepers: Karys McEwen on marketing books for young people
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
In her final column for Junior, Karys McEwen explores what works (and what doesn’t) when marketing children’s literature to the people actually purchasing books—adults. When it comes to marketing literature to...
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