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Galley Beggar publisher questions Booker Prize judging process

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
‘It’s one thing to feel bad about losing. It’s another to feel you were never in the game ... Toxic thoughts and questions flood your mind when you can’t trust...

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Sales Fiction Filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta has optioned the film rights to Offshore (Joshua Mostafa, Seizure, see news). Children’s Ford Street Publishing has sold simplified Chinese-language rights to TooCool (Phil Kettle)...

Remember, remember the 10th of September: Release day for ‘The Testaments’

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Three retailers share how their release-day strategies panned out for this year’s biggest release: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Vintage). The sweet spot In Fremantle, New Edition bookseller Kristy Diffey has...

2020 vision: Kids’ and YA title preview

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
New books from favourites including Melina Marchetta, Sally Morgan and Jessica Townsend are slated for 2020 publication, alongside debuts by Danielle Binks and Georgina Young that are already generating buzz....

Publishers Weekly

Monday, 21 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, 21 October 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Khaki Town Judy Nunn William Heinemann 2 Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life Kitty Flanagan Allen & Unwin 3 The Bad Guys...

Publishing in a time of political instability

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
'As publishers we should be publishing political books from the left, from the right, from the centre. It's important we’re not retreating back to publishing the sort of liberal books...

Brexit, bookselling and ‘Boy Swallows Universe’: An interview with Charlie Redmayne

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Charlie Redmayne is CEO of HarperCollins UK, with responsibility for the UK, Ireland, India and Australia. He joined HarperCollins as group digital director, but left the business in 2011 to...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Sales Nonfiction Murdoch Books has sold French-language and Dutch-language rights to The Fit Foodie Meal Prep Plan (Sally O’Neil) to Marabout Publishing and Forte Uitgevers respectively. Thames & Hudson Australia...

Taking stock: Hachette’s Next Stock Date system

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Hachette’s Next Stock Date system aims to provide booksellers with timely, accurate data. After spending more than two years developing it, Hachette has offered to share what they’ve learned with...

Book designer spotlight: Imogen Stubbs

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
A love of publishing sparked by the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT led to studying graphic design, eventually landing Imogen Stubbs a job at Text Publishing, where she...

Publishers Weekly

Monday, 14 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, 14 October 2019
Top 10 bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Bad Guys Episode 10: The Baddest Day Ever Aaron Blabey Scholastic 2 Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life Kitty Flanagan Allen...

All bases covered: Karys McEwen on book design

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Karys McEwen discusses the subtle ways that book design impacts students and librarians. Book design is not something that I spend a lot of time considering, or at least that...

Australian novels, international rights—what’s the story? Part three

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
In the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16–21 October, Books+Publishing is publishing a three-part feature on Australian fiction rights sales by researcher Airlie Lawson. A PhD candidate at the Australian National...

Book fairs still key for selling Australian rights, data suggests

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
‘There is no getting around it: for Australians, attending an international book fair always means a long-haul flight ... It’s also expensive. Yet the evidence is overwhelming, from lists of...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Sales Fiction Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia has sold North American rights to You Don’t Know Me, The Hidden Hours and a new untitled work (all Sara Foster) to...

Quiet achiever: Jessica Horrocks’ career journey

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Jessica Horrocks, designer and production coordinator at Text Publishing, was recently named Emerging Designer of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards. She shares her career journey. Having...

Charts this week

Tuesday, 8 October 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 Bad Guys Episode...

Publishers Weekly

Monday, 7 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 edition features a holiday gift...