Books+Publishing magazine Issue 3 2018
Books+Publishing magazine’s third issue for 2018 is out now! It features 30 reviews of adult and children’s books publishing from September to November. Reviews: Of the 17 adult books reviewed in this issue, four...
2017 Stella Count reveals drop in percentage of women reviewed
The 2017 Stella Count has found that four out of 12 publications surveyed reviewed more books by women than men—the same ratio as 2016’s count—but that the overall percentage of...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Books+Publishing’s first Junior newsletter for 2016 contains 10 reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in February and March 2016. Lee Battersby’s first book for children Magrit (Walker Books, March)...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains six reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in October and November.Included is a review of The Three Billy Goats Gruff from Little Hare’s new...
‘Books+Publishing’ reviews: 83% of print books published simultaneously as ebooks; 60% of adult titles written by women
Books+Publishing has conducted an overview of its reviews pages for 2013 to reveal some interesting statistics about the Australian publishing industry. In total, 232 Australian and New Zealand originated titles...
New publication the ‘Saturday Paper’ to include pseudonymous book reviews
The Saturday Paper, a weekly newspaper to be launched by Schwartz Publishing in the first quarter of 2014, will include book coverage with pseudonymous reviews. The identity of reviewers will...
Talkback: Book reviews and book sales
Do book reviews in local and national newspapers make a difference to your sales? Bookseller+Publisher asked three booksellers. I’ve spent the past 12 years cutting out the reviews in the...
Why some genres suffer more from slashed book pages
A decline in Australian newspapers’ literary pages and an increase in review-sharing between Fairfax’s mastheads the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times have significantly reduced the number...
Jesse Blackadder’s ‘Chasing the Light’
It’s the early 1930s. Whaling is booming in Antarctic waters while the fight for dominance over the land continues. The race to become the first woman to reach Antarctica is...
Lesley Jørgensen’s ‘Cat & Fiddle’
Cat and Fiddle, winner of the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript, follows the scandals and fortunes of two connected families in rural Wiltshire ... This is...
‘Bookseller+Publisher’ 2012 reviews: 77% of print books published simultaneously as ebooks; 54% of adult titles written by women
An overview of Bookseller+Publisher’s reviews pages over the past year reveals some interesting statistics about the Australian publishing industry. In total, 239 Australian and New Zealand originated titles published in...
Nathan Luff’s ‘Bad Grammar’
Marcus is a great warrior—a dragonslayer! At least, he is online. Gaming is the one place he feels at home since his only friend Bashir moved to India, a fact...
‘Joyful Strains: Expat Writers on Making Australia Home’ (ed by Kent MacCarter & Ali Lemer)
This broad collection of migration stories is an example of a good idea backed up by an excellent execution. Many of the contributors are known names in literary circles: Dmetri...
Bookseller+Publisher data: Aus newspapers review more books by men than by women
Bookseller+Publisher has released data indicating that reviews of books by men outnumber reviews of books by women in several of Australia's major print newspapers and magazines. The release of the...
On Fancy Goods this week
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: B Owen Baxter reviews Killing Richard Dawson (Robin Baker, Pantera Press); Deborah Crabtree reviews Taller When Prone (Les Murray, Black Inc.); Paula Grunseit...
Fancy Goods
New on the Fancy Goods blog this week: Q+A with Australian Booksellers Association conference speaker Richard Nash on ‘Publishing 3.0'; author interview with Maggie Joel on her new novel The...
Inside the current issue: Reviewers’ top picks
Among our reviewers' top picks of forthcomg titles reviewed in the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine are: The Second-last Woman in England (Maggie Joel, Pier 9); Sunday's Kitchen: Food and...
Inside the latest issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine: read the review before the launch
Among the 33 adult and 26 children's titles reviewed pre-publication in the March issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine are two books that have just been launched at Adelaide Writers' Week. Click...