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...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 18 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...
Charts this week
Monday, 18 November 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Bluey: The Beach Bluey Puffin 2 Bluey: Time to Play! Bluey Puffin 3 Bluey: Fruit Bat Bluey Puffin 4 Diary of a...
Open access a ‘laughable’ model for UWA Publishing
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
'Open access has an important role to play in academic publishing, but it is laughable to claim UWA Publishing’s cultural impact can simply be replaced through open access.'—academic Emmett Stinson...
New decade, new nonfiction: 2020 nonfiction preview
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
New books by Bruce Pascoe, Julia Baird, Melissa Davey and Miranda Tapsell are among next year’s most anticipated releases. Sarah Farquharson rounds up the best locally authored nonfiction to look...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold rights to Pain and Prejudice (Gabrielle Jackson) to Piatkus in the UK and Greystone Books in North America (see news). Black Inc. has sold...
Nobody knows: Justin Ractliffe on using data to better understand reading habits
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
In this opinion piece, based on his Copyright Agency publisher fellowship report, Penguin Random House Australia publishing director Justin Ractliffe argues that while it's difficult to predict consumers' reading habits,...
Not taking cues from Melbourne and Sydney: Sisonke Msimang on Perth Festival’s Literature & Ideas program
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Earlier this year writer Sisonke Msimang was appointed curator of Perth Festival's 2020 Literature & Ideas program, which will include events with local authors Bruce Pascoe, Melissa Lucashenko and Charlotte...
Balancing act: Gavin Burbidge’s career journey
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Gavin Burbidge is an account manager at Penguin Random House Australia and a constant figure on the ABA’s shortlists for Victorian rep of the year. He shares his career journey....
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 11 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...
Charts this week
Monday, 11 November 2019
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Blue Moon Lee Child Bantam Press 2 The Night Fire Michael Connelly Allen & Unwin 3 The Last Paradise Di Morrissey Macmillan...
The decline of the midlist author
Thursday, 7 November 2019
‘You want to be debut, literary, or bestselling; you don’t want to be midlist. The midlist is like the middle class; it’s the group that gets squeezed. They don’t get...
Diversity in UK publishing: what’s changed?
Thursday, 7 November 2019
In 2017 BookBrunch feature writer Julie Vuong reported on the UK book industry’s efforts to encourage diversity. Two years on, she considers the industry’s progress. Here we are: two years...
My life in books: Tim Gott from Devonport Bookshop
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Tim and Anne Gott have owned the Devonport Bookshop for almost 25 years. In his bookseller’s diary, Tim shares stories from his bookselling career and observations on Devonport’s urban renewal....
Long-term appeal: Marketing a series
Thursday, 7 November 2019
How—and to whom—do publishers market books as part of series? Bec Kavanagh spoke to Hardie Grant Egmont and Scholastic about their approaches to creating buzz that transforms into longevity. In two...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Sales Fiction Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia has sold US and UK rights to In the Clearing (J P Pomare, Hachette) in a two-book deal to global Hachette imprints...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 4 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...
Charts this week
Monday, 4 November 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 When All is Said & Done Neale Daniher Macmillan 2 The Night Fire Michael Connelly Allen & Unwin 3 Kitty Flanagan's 488...
Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders (Phillip Roope & Kevin Meagher, A&U)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Shark Arm is an offbeat true crime book that begins with a shark throwing up a man’s tattooed arm in front of onlookers at a Coogee aquarium in 1935. The...
Melissa Lucashenko argues for tax-free literary prizes
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
'It's a bit of a kick in the guts to win a major prize only to learn you're going to lose a third of it or maybe more for the...
Climate change and MBS books popular at nonfiction-focused Frankfurt 2019
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Nonfiction titles dominated this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (16–20 October), with books on climate change and Mind Body Spirit (MBS) in demand, according to a number of Australian publishers who...
Justin Ractliffe on reaching heavy and light readers
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Penguin Random House ANZ publishing director Justin Ractliffe travelled to the United States earlier in 2019 to study consumer insights and data as part of his Copyright Agency Cultural Fund...
Best book forward: 2020 fiction preview
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
New books by Evie Wyld, Kate Mildenhall, Alice Pung and Jamie Marina Lau are among next year’s most anticipated releases. Sarah Farquharson rounds up the best locally authored fiction and...
Publishers Weekly
Monday, 28 October 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, 28 October 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Khaki Town Judy Nunn William Heinemann 2 Me Elton John Macmillan 3 19th Christmas James Patterson Century 4 The Testaments Margaret Atwood...
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