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Australian 2016 Australian Publishers at Frankfurt Hall 6.2 A59 / A62 JOIN US on THURSDAY at 17:30 for OUR STAND PARTY Your guide to AustrAliAn exhibitors And books At the FrAnkFurt book FAir think AustrAliAn 2016 Australian Publishers at Frankfurt Hall 6.2 A59 / A62 JOIN US ON THURSDAY AT 17:30 FOR OUR STAND PARTY COMPANY CONTACT EMAIL WEBSITE ATF Press Hilary Regan [email protected] www.atfpress.com Australian Self Publishing William Webster [email protected] www.australianselfpublishinggroup.com Big Sky Publishing Denny Neave [email protected] www.bigskypublishing.com.au Blue Angel Publishing Tanya Graham [email protected] www.blueangelonline.com Book Systems International Harald Dittmer [email protected] www.booksystems.com Brolga Publishing Mark Zocchi [email protected] www.brolgapublishing.com.au Era Publications Rod Martin [email protected] www.erapublications.com Exisle Publishing Benny Thomas [email protected] www.exislepublishing.com.au Melbourne University Publishing [email protected] www.mup.com.au NewSouth Publishing Kathy Bail [email protected] www.newsouthpublishing.com Pantera Press Katy McEwen [email protected] kwww.panterapress.com.au R.I.C. Publications Debbie Hendriks [email protected] www.ricgroup.com.au Renbro Publishing Renato Simionato [email protected] www.renbro.com.au Rockpool Publishing Paul Dennett [email protected] www.rockpoolpublishing.com.au Scribe Publications Amanda Tokar [email protected] www.scribepublications.com.au Spinifex Press Susan Hawthorne [email protected] www.spinifexpress.com.au The Drummond Agency Sheila Drummond [email protected] www.drummondagency.com.au Text Publishing Khadija Caffoor [email protected] www.textpublishing.com.au University of Queensland Press Kate McCormack [email protected] www.uqp.uq.edu.au BEAVIPINSYDNEY Are you an international publisher, editor, The VIPs Program is a fellowship-style, week-long program rights manager, literary agent or scout? of meetings, networking events and industry forums. The Australia Council provides funding for flights and Expressions of interest are closing soon for the accommodation for the selected VIPs, welcoming over Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) 230 international editors, publishers and literary agents program, held alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival from to Australia since 1998. 22–28 May 2017. For more information visit the Australian Publishers Association stand at Hall 6.2 A62 or our website: Contact Karen Le Roy / +61 2 9215 9054 australiacouncil.gov.au/strategies-and-frameworks/visiting-international-publishers-2017/ [email protected] Kookoo Kookaburra cover.indd 1 29/07/2016 10:32 am 3 think INTRODUCTION Australian 2016 elcome to Think Australian 2016, your comprehensive guide to the Australian book trade. This publication is produced by Books+Publishing and is brought to you in partnership with Publishing Perspectives. Now in its 14th year, Think Australian brings you our annual overview of the STAY IN TOUCH AustralianW market; our survey of Australian rights managers and literary agents; bestseller charts and Books+Publishing is the number-one information on our most-awarded titles; a round-up of Australian publishers’ recent rights successes; source of news, views and information and features on Australian YA, and film and TV tie-ins. on the publishing scene in Australia, You’ll also find information on where to find Australian publishers, should you wish to find out more New Zealand and the region. about the titles Australia has on offer. For more information about our Feel free to share Think Australian with your colleagues and contact us at think.australian@thorpe. publications visit www. com.au to be alerted to future editions and to receive email updates about the book market in Australia, booksandpublishing.com.au. New Zealand and the region. You can also find us on twitter at @BplusPNews or on Facebook at We hope you enjoy this insight into our country’s publishing industry, and that you have a productive www.facebook.com/ and enjoyable fair! booksandpublishing. Think Australian 2016 is produced by Books+Publishing and published by Thorpe-Bowker, a division of Andrea Hanke R R Bowker LLC, Editor-in-chief Level 1, 607 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia Books+Publishing Tel +61-3-8517-8333 www.booksandpublishing.com.au © 2016 Thorpe-Bowker, a division of ProQuest LLC Editor-in-chief Andrea Hanke Tel: +61-3-8517-8347 [email protected] Editorial contributors: Brad Jefferies, CONTENTS Vicki Stegink, Jackie Tang, Sophie Teague and Andrew Wrathall 4 The market down under Design/production manager: Silvana Paolini An overview of the Australian book market Advertising manager: Fi Tunnicliff [email protected] 8 Selling strong Australian publishers report on their recent rights successes 12 Australian exhibitors The Australian Publishers Association’s guide to Australian exhibitors and locations at the Frankfurt Book Fair 14 Australian award winners A round-up of some of the most-awarded Australian books of the past year 16 Australian bestsellers The top-selling Australian titles of the past year, provided by Nielsen BookScan ON THE COVER The illustrations on the cover of 18 The rights stuff Think Australian 2016 come from Our annual survey of Australian rights managers and literary agents the children’s picture book Kookoo Kookaburra, written and illustrated by Gregg Dreise and published by 20 #LoveOzYA gathers momentum Australian Indigenous publishing An overview of the grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books house Magabala Press. For more information visit www.magabala.com. 22 Screen stories A look at some of the Australian books being adapted for film and TV 23 Title showcase and exhibitors list www.booksandpublishing.com.au More details on some of Australia’s titles and exhibitors R=0 G=0 B=0 Pantone Process Black C C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=100% #636466 R=99 G=100 B=102 75% Pantone Process Black C C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=75% #636466 R=0 G=75 B=145 Pantone 662C C=100% M=71% Y=0 K=18% #004B91 R=0 G=177 B=176 Pantone 326C C=87% M=0 Y=38% K=0 #00B1B0 Pantone Process Black C Pantone 143C 75% Pantone Process Black C Pantone 143C C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=100% C=89% M=56% Y=0 K=0 C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=75% C=0 M=30% Y=100% K=0 R=0 G=0 B=0 R=0 G=102 B=204 #636466 #0066cc R=99 G=100 B=102 R=255 G=102 B=204 #636466 #0066cc 4 MARKET OVERVIEW THE MARKET DOWN UNDER Book sales edged up in Australia for the second year in a row as the market continues its recovery. Brad Jefferies presents an overview of the Australian book industry. he Australian retail book market posted marginal growth in 2015, not include ebooks and audiobooks, as their sales in Australia aren’t tracked making it the second year in a row that sales have grown by single- in any reliable way. digit figures after a period of decline. Sales were up 2.4% in value Ebook sales are estimated to comprise around 20% of the market with and flat in volume, boosted in no small part by the sales of adult the prevailing view that this has plateaued for the time being. Notably, Pan Tcolouring books. Macmillan Australia’s digital-only imprint, Momentum, was scaled down Standing out among the local bestsellers once again was Andy Griffiths and folded back into the publisher earlier this year. Australian audiobook and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ children’s books series. The series sold more publisher Bolinda has reported a fourfold increase in revenue over the past than 700,000 copies in the past year (July 2015 to June 2016), led by The several years. 65-Storey Treehouse, which alone sold 347,000 copies. It was far ahead of The media has jumped on the narrative of the recovering market, with the bestselling Australian adult fiction book, Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel The stories about the resilience of bookshops replacing those bemoaning the death Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove), which sold 131,000 copies on the back of of print. Several prominent independent bookstores in Sydney and Melbourne the film adaptation’s release. have opened or announced plans to open new stores over the past 12 months, Sales tracking service Nielsen BookScan reports the total turnover of contributing to the sense of revival, while the largest chain has reported its the Australian print book market in 2015 was A$979m (56.4m books), up fourth straight year of growth. Indie bookstores represent just over 26% of from A$938m (55.5m books) in 2014. Although the book market peaked at the print book market in Australia; chain and online-only stores represent A$1.3b in 2010, after two years of successive growth it’s continuing to edge around 44%; and discount department stores are taking an increasingly larger away from its low of $917m in 2013. It’s also worth noting these figures do proportion of sales, accounting for 29.8% of the market, up 4.4% on 2014. MARKET OVERVIEW 5 Figure 1: Growth in titles published in Australia 28234 30000 25000 21086 20877 18757 19831 19778 19971 20000 15961 15000 Total number of publishers Total number of titles released 10000 4355 4252 4132 4344 3996 5000 3942 3899 3815 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Book numbers fall, digital format steady between 20 and 99 titles each, and 78 published between 11 and 20 titles. At the other end of the scale, 2355 publishers only released one title in the year. In 2015, 3996 different publishing entities in Australia produced 19,971 Many of these are likely to be self-publishers.
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