Charts this week
Monday, 27 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 The Games James Patterson Century...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Wrong ’Un (Brad Hogg & Greg Growden) to Wavesound; world audio rights to Playing to Win: The Definitive Biography of...
Grant designs: Bookstores on their James Patterson grant projects
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. Read her article...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
‘It is a genuinely exciting opportunity for an Australian publisher and a first for a Chinese children’s publisher to acquire an interest in a foreign children’s publishing company’—New Frontier managing...
Ailsa Wild and Jeremy Barr’s ‘The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales’
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
‘How much history and science can a reader learn from a graphic novel? This new art-science offering from publisher Scale Free Network suggests quite a lot! The Invisible War is...
Small publisher spotlight: Scale Free Network
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Melbourne-based ‘art-science collaborative’ Scale Free Network released its first book The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon in 2013. ‘We wanted to find a way to tell positive stories about...
Charts this week
Monday, 20 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Dry Jane Harper Macmillan 3 End of Watch Stephen King...
Small publisher spotlight: Acorn Press
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Founded in 1979, Melbourne-based Acorn Press is the ‘longest existing Christian publisher in Australia’. ‘Our first book People Caring for People by Ray Smith sold many thousands of copies and...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 16 June 2016
‘Many of the places where author and audience now interact has little to do with retail. It’s via online platforms, social media and writers’ festivals, as evidenced by the growth...
Fertile ground: Jane Harper on ‘The Dry’
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Jane Harper’s crime novel The Dry (Picador) debuted in the top 10 bestsellers chart in its first week of publication. Harper, who previously won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Sales Fiction—Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold German rights to Line of Sight and Zero at the Bone (both David Whish-Wilson) to Suhrkamp Verlag. Scribe has sold North...
Briohny Doyle’s ‘The Island Will Sink’
Thursday, 16 June 2016
‘The Island Will Sink follows other recent Australian literary novels exploring the “cinematic uncertainty” of climate change, such as James Bradley’s Clade and Mireille Juchau’s The World Without Us, though...
Charts this week
Friday, 10 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You (Film Tie In) Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Emperor's Revenge Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison Michael Joseph 3...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia (David Hunt) to Audible. Children—Hardie Grant Egmont has sold North American rights to Together...
Ashleigh Wilson’s ‘Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing’
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
‘A good subject is important, and Brett Whiteley was a genius who occupied a unique place in Australian culture. He was creative, selfish and, in the end, destructive, pushing boundaries...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
‘It’s a dire time for the arts in Australia. It’s not just the cuts in funding, it’s the way that artists are made, in an abundance of casual ways, to...
Small publisher spotlight: Inkerman & Blunt
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Established in 2013, Melbourne-based Inkerman & Blunt publishes poetry, prose and nonfiction of ‘originality, intelligence and beauty’. According to founder Donna Ward, ‘high-quality production values, dedication to extraordinary books, and...
Rethinking business: The market for business books
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Books on leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation are attracting new readers to the business books category, while a strong backlist remains essential to sales, writes Andrea Hanke. Read her article in...
Charts this week
Monday, 6 June 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 Me Before You Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 2 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Black Swan 3 The World's Worst Children...
Small publisher spotlight: Aulexic
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
WA-based publisher Aulexic specialises in books for children with language and literacy difficulties, launching its first titles in 2015. ‘Originally, we started as a simple home-school project to encourage my...
Unstuck in the middle: Middle-grade fiction in Australia
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
‘What happens when there aren’t enough middle-grade books to challenge children to move out of early readers? What if they’re never compelled to read YA literature, or else stop recreational...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
‘Somehow we have to try to find a solution to put this issue to bed’—Readings MD Mark Rubbo discusses parallel importation restrictions at the ABA conference
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Italian rights to Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (Toni Jordan) to Marsilio; and world audio rights to A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories (Elizabeth...
Tom Griffiths’ ‘The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft’
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
‘Griffiths sheds light on Australia’s historical tradition—the shifts of orthodoxy and vantage point, the upheavals of technology and societal change, the relevance and scope of its endeavour—and argues for its...
Charts this week
Monday, 30 May 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers Index Title Author Imprint 1 The Last Mile David Baldacci Macmillan 2 Me Before You Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph 3 My Life on the Road Gloria Steinem...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
‘It exemplifies how much stronger each year the children’s component of the festival is ... the book sales for kids were enormous’—Gleebooks’ David Gaunt reports on the bestsellers at this...
Retail rewards: An interview with Len Vlahos
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
US book-industry insider, bookseller and YA author Len Vlahos will deliver the keynote at the Australian Booksellers Association conference this weekend. He spoke to Andrea Hanke about the opportunities and...
Small publisher spotlight: Spinifex Press
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Melbourne-based feminist publisher Spinifex Press has been publishing since 1991. The biggest challenge, say co-founders Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein, has been ‘resisting being pigeon-holed’. ‘As a feminist press there...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. (Nero) has sold Russian rights to Forever Young: The Story of Troye Sivan (Alana Wulff) to AST Publishing Group. Acquisitions Fiction—Penguin has acquired ANZ rights to Loose...
Emily Gale’s ‘The Other Side of Summer’
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
‘A beautifully rendered portrayal of grief, family and leaving things behind, The Other Side of Summer is a welcome addition to the shelves of Australian middle fiction’ ... read Bec...
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