A new survey of Australia’s international book rights sales finds children’s books are most popular with overseas buyers but adult fiction is catching up.
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Traditional publishing needs to be more open to new voices.
Literary author Salman Rushdie is publishing his new novella on newsletter subscription platform Substack - sparking conversations about the challenges and potential the platform offers publishing.
The controversial fantasy novel and its sequels enticed more authors to experiment with self-publishing, but the latter has a history that long predates the steamy bestseller.
Listening-as-reading is a growing segment of the publishing market. Audiobooks revive ancient ways of storytelling and might get more people excited about books.
Amanda Lohrey’s novel about a woman who isolates herself yet finds connection has won the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
There is something beautiful about African languages carrying science, fictionalised of course, into imagined futures.
It’s no coincidence that more books about trees are popping up. There is an air of desperation in new books by Peter Wohllben, Janine Burke and others.
Publishing houses face strain, and in some cases, closure, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Authors are looking for alternative ways to get their work to readers.
Amid the trauma and boredom of war, soldiers turned to reading — often magazines they wrote themselves.
Brittany Higgins’ forthcoming memoir will allow her to tell her story in her own words. She’ll join a group of strong women who’ve done just that.
Media coverage of the recent Dr. Seuss controversy are rooted in both a lack of awareness of the challenges and realities of maintaining collections and a false understanding of history.
Millions of people are reading young adult fantasy novels like Twilight or A Court of Thorns and Roses. But the way sexual consent is depicted in these can be confusing or even harmful.
Created in response to Sherlock Holmes, detective Martin Hewitt is less operatic and more pragmatic.
Anguished cries of ‘cancel culture’ rang out with news that six Dr Seuss books would be shelved. But canceling Dr Seuss is not possible, nor is it the best way to build diversity and understanding.
At the turn of the 20th century, with few children’s books featuring Black characters, one young editor implored his peers to ‘Let us make the world know that we are living.’
Many important Australian books have found themselves out-of-print and hard-to-find. The Untapped project aims to change that, bringing classics to a library near you.
Trixie Belden wasn’t as pretty as her best friend, or a cool as Nancy Drew. But she had a ‘mental computer’ for solving mysteries and a non-judgmental moral core.
Will the newest batch of books about the climate crisis change minds? Reading about the problem can help us understand it, but it’s political action that is needed now.
Only three non-English UK-based authors have ever won the Booker prize. And all three of them were published by London presses.
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Faculty Research Manager, Macquarie University
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Lecturer, Publishing, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing and English, Edith Cowan University