Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Clan Destine Press has sold rights to Out of the Black Land and the ‘Delphic Women’ trilogy Medea, Cassandra and Electra (all Kerry Greenwood) to Poisoned Pen Press in...
Rights round-up
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has made a translation deal for The China Choice (Hugh White) with the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs via Graal Agency (Poland). Exisle Publishing has sold UK, US,...
Rights round-up
Sales Nonfiction—Austlit has sold rights to Mary Poppins She Wrote (Valerie Lawson) to Simon & Schuster in New York and to Wydawnictwo Marginesy in Poland. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed Chinese simple...
Hachette signs three-book deal with Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner
Hachette Australia has signed a three-book deal with the winner of the 2013 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Maxine Beneba Clarke. Hachette will publish Clarke’s award-winning short...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold UK English language rights to The Scrivener’s Tale (Fiona McIntosh); and Bulgarian translation rights to The Right Hand of God (Russell Kirkpatrick). Spinifex Press has sold...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Polish translation rights to Golden Earrings (Belinda Alexandra); Norweigan translation rights to Chasing the Light (Jesse Blackadder); and ANZ English-language audio rights to Bittersweet (Colleen McCullough)....
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Spanish translation rights to Fresh Fields (Peter Kocan) and My Brilliant Career (Miles Franklin); and US, European and Irish English-language rights to Dark Serpent, Dark Turtle...
Publishers concerned about Amazon’s territoriality practices
Publishers who attended this year’s London Book Fair have raised concerns about how Amazon enforces territorial restrictions for books listed on its websites, reports both the Bookseller and Publishing Perspectives. According...
Alex Adsett: Keeping up with contracts
Alex Adsett highlights new developments in publishing contracts, and where publishers and authors need to be wary. It has been interesting to watch the changes in the publishing industry playing...
APA leads ‘exploratory’ rights trip to Korea
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has led a delegation of rights managers and literary agents to the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), which ran from 20 January to 4 February, followed by...
Anne Beilby: The rights direction
Anne Beilby has been rights manager at Text Publishing since the days when pitch letters were sent by fax. She shares her career journey. I studied anthropology, literature and languages...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Text has sold Czech, Portugese and Slovakian rights to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion); and Mexican rights to A Love Letter From a Stray Moon (Jay Griffiths). Children’s—Hardie Grant...
Text acquires unpublished Frame novel, ‘Death in Brunswick’ follow up
Text has acquired ANZ rights in Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel In the Memorial Room. The novel by the late author ‘draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as...
Scribe to establish UK office in 2013
Independent Melbourne-based publisher Scribe Publications has announced that it will expand to the UK next year. Scribe said in a statement that it will establish an office in the UK...
‘As energetic and optimistic as ever’: Australians report successful Frankfurt Book Fair
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair ended on Sunday 14 October with organisers reporting 281,753 visitors over the five days of the fair, which featured...
The rights stuff: Australian rights trading in 2012
For the 10th year in a row, Bookseller+Publisher has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents in the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair to gauge the health of Australian...
Egmont signs publishing rights to Minecraft game
In the UK, Egmont has signed the book and publishing rights associated with computer game Minecraft for all territories excluding the US, reports the Bookseller. The game ‘involves players creating...
Guest of Honour status results in unprecedented NZ rights sales
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has announced that its position as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair has increased rights sales of New Zealand writers and...
CAL launches online rights clearance portal
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has launched a new online portal for rights clearances. RightsPortal is designed to provide transactional rights clearance for users to reuse published works as well...
LBF: ‘busy’ and ‘hopeful’
While official attendance figures are yet to be released, this year’s London Book Fair (LBF) has been described as ‘busy’ and ‘hopeful’ by Australian publishers, with a large delegation from...