how to find Australia
ABC Books Contact name: Liz White Position: Foreign Rights Manager Address: Level 10, 700 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007 Phone: +61-2-8333-3973 Fax: +61-2-8333-3888 Email: white.liz@abc.net.au Website: www.abcbooksworldwide.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B948 ABC Books is a division of ABC Commercial, the consumer publishing arm of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC Books has built its reputation on a list of timely and provocative works of non-fiction and fiction for adults and produces an award-winning range of top-quality children’s fiction, non-fiction and illustrated books. The diverse range of non-fiction books includes sport, health and fitness, cookery, religion, music, philosophy, language and social issues. Each year ABC Books publishes more than 150 new titles—there is something to suit every reader. Allen & Unwin Contact name: Christen Cornell Position: Rights and International Sales Associate Address: 83 Alexander St, Crows Nest NSW 2065 Post: PO Box 8500, St Leonards NSW 1590 Phone: +61-2-8425-0178 Fax: +61-2-9966-0065 Email: christenc@allenandunwin.com Website: www.allenandunwin.com Frankfurt location: 8.0 B946 Allen & Unwin is an independent company with one of the largest original publishing programs in Australia. We publish over 200 new titles each year, ranging from award-winning fiction to general non-fiction, internationally renowned children’s books and academic titles. Allen & Unwin has been voted Publisher of the Year by Australian booksellers in 1992 (the inaugural award), 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. Australian Licensing Corporation Contact name: Rod Hare Position: Managing Director Address: 8/21 Mary St, Surry Hills NSW 2010 Phone: +61-2-9280-2220 Fax: +61-2-9280-2223 Email: alc@alc-online.com Website: www.alc-online.com Frankfurt location: 8.0 D969 Australian Licensing Corporation is an international licensing company representing publishers from Australia, Europe and the USA, selling foreign rights and other licences worldwide. ALC also arranges distribution services for publishing clients within Australia and New Zealand. In addition, ALC has a publishing imprint called Little Hare Books, specialising in children’s books that are both educational and fun. Australian Roadside Services Pty Ltd Contact name:Lina Beccia Position:Project Manager: Slippery When Wet Address:271 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC 3125 Phone:1800-810-385 or +61-3-9889-8194 (Soltek Communications) Fax:+61-3-9889-8197 Email:lina@soltek.com.au Website:www.slipperywhenwetstories.com.au Slippery When Wet offers boundless adventures inspired by great travels and tales from across the vast Australian continent. Since 2002, the Slippery When Wet Annual Short Story Competition has provided a vehicle for Australian writers to unleash their imagination, share their tales of adventure and develop their passion for writing, with winning and finalist entries being published in an annual short story compilation. The Slippery When Wet Box Set contains the first five annual compilations featuring the competition’s winning and finalist stories, plus the Slippery When Wet Audio Book CD; with 14 stories selected from across the series. Black Dog Books Contact name: Andrew Kelly Position: Publisher Address: 15 Gertrude St, Fitzroy VIC 3065 Phone: +61-3-9419-9406 Fax: +61-3-9419-1214 Email: andrew@bdb.com.au Website: www.bdb.com.au Frankfurt location:see Australian Licensing Corporation Black Dog is an innovative, independent Australian publisher with a multi-awardwinning list, including Carole Wilkinson’s extraordinary Dragonkeeper. Black Dog is coming from a different perspective, presenting fresh views, authors, illustrators and ideas. Kids can’t put the books down. Parents are happy for them to pick them up. Black Inc. Contact name: Sophy Williams Position: Managing Director Address: Level 5, 289 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000 Phone: +61-3-9654-2000 Fax: +61-3-9654-2290 Email: sophyw@blackincbooks.com Website: www.blackincbooks.com Frankfurt location: Trade visitor—please contact by email for appointment during the fair Black Inc. is an independent publisher to the general trade. We publish in the areas of memoir, biography, poetry, history, politics, current affairs, finance, literary anthologies, health and sport. Previous rights sales include The Wreck of the Batavia by Simon Leys (UK, US), Bad Company (aka Fat Cats) by Gideon Haigh (UK, US), Whitefella Jump Up by Germaine Greer (UK/Commonwealth), Muck by Craig Sherborne (NZ) and Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars by Peter Hartcher (US, UK, China, Japan). BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER Magazine Contact name: Andrew Wilkins Position: Publisher Address: Thorpe-Bowker, C3, 85 Turner St, Port Melbourne VIC 3207 Phone: +61-3-8645-0392 Fax: +61-3-8645-0368 Email: andrew.wilkins@thorpe.com.au Website: www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B956 BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER is the Australian book industry’s trade journal and the publisher of this Think Australian 2007 catalogue. Brandl & Schlesinger Contact name: Veronica Sumegi Position: Publisher/Director Address: PO Box 127, Blackheath NSW 2785 Phone: +61-2-4787-5848 Fax: +61-2-4787-5672 Email: vsumegi@brandl.com.au Website: www.brandl.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B956 Brandl & Schlesinger, established in 1994, is an independent Australian publishing company with many award-winning authors. We focus on literary fiction, non-fiction, biography, the best of Australian poetry, translation and academic journals. 2008 will be an exciting year for Brandl & Schlesinger, with many new titles, both fiction and non-fiction.
20
Think AusTrAliAn
eContent Management Contact name: James H Davidson Position: Managing Director Street address: 117 Ruddle Dr, Maleny QLD 4552 Postal address: PO Box 1027, Maleny QLD 4552 Phone: +61-7-5435-2900 Fax: +61-7-5435-2911 Email: info@e-contentmanagement.com Website: www.e-contentmanagement.com eContent Management is an independent publisher of management, health care and counselling journals and books, and a services provider to international publishers, authors and associations. eContent Management products are unique in providing Asia-Pacific content with global orientation; international academic networks; quality peer-reviewed materials; Asia-Pacific distribution channels; and international conference-journal integration. Journals include Contemporary Nurse, Health Sociology Review and Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice. Special issues are released as books for course adoption. Finch Publishing Contact name: Rex Finch Position: Managing Director and Publisher Address: P O Box 120, Lane Cove NSW 1595 Phone: +61-2-9418-6247 Fax: +61-2-9418-8878 Email: rex@finch.com.au Website: www.finch.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B943 Publishers of books on parenting, childcare, relationships, health and social issues. Our major titles for foreign rights sales over the years have been Raising Boys and Manhood (both by Steve Biddulph), Raising Girls, Baby on Board, Life Smart, Adolescence and ParentCraft. Newer titles include Tricky Kids, Getting on With Others, Is It Me or My Hormones?, Helping Your Baby to Sleep, Bully Blocking and Shared Parenting. New releases include The Other Side of Blue, The Happiness Handbook and The Strong Woman’s Desire for the Strong Man. Five Mile Press, The Contact name: Janet Rowe Position: Associate Publisher Address: 950 Stud Road, Rowville, VIC 3178 Phone: +61-3-8756-5500 Fax: +61-3-8756-5588 Email: publishing@fivemile.com.au Website: www.fivemile.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 E922 The Five Mile Press is an industry leader in Australian publishing with in excess of 200 new titles every year. It is well known for its high quality and innovative products in both generic and licensed children's publishing. Formats include jigsaw books, board books, stencil books, interactive pop-up books, CD books and an extensive range of original formats that make up our activity range. We currently publish books in over 20 foreign languages supplied to over 30 countries. Funtastic Limited Contact name: Lian Smith Position: Business Development Manager—International Publishing Address: 1–35 Wellington St, Collingwood VIC 3078 Phone: +61-3-9418-0809 Fax: +61-3-8415-0913 Email: lian.smith@funtastic.com.au Website: www.funtastic.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 E954 After four years of trading, Funtastic Publishing is already the number-one distributor of licensed books in Australia and New Zealand; the largest supplier of children’s books to the mass market; and one of the top-five publishers in Australia. Funtastic is proud to present a fresh new range of novelty titles at Frankfurt 2007.
Gary Allen Contact name: Gary Allen Position: Managing Director Street address: Cooper St, Smithfield NSW 2164 Postal address: PO Box 6640, Wetherill Park BC, NSW 1851 Phone: +61-2-9725-2933 Fax: +61-2-9609-6155 Email: gary@garyallen.com.au Website: www.garyallen.com.au Gary Allen is proudly the largest Australian-owned book distribution company. Having been in business for over 50 years, we are now a third-generation familyowned company. Our list is predominantly nonfiction and children’s, with books ranging from one-off Australian authors/self-publishers through to full lists from large Australian and international publishing houses. We have sales staff representing us in all Australian states and territories, keeping booksellers up to date with our monthly new releases. Hachette Livre Australia Contact name: Fiona Hazard Position: Publishing Director Address: 17/207 Kent St, Sydney NSW 2000 Phone: +61-2-8248-0800 Fax: +61-2-8248-0810 Email: rights@hachette.com.au Website: www.hachette.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 G965 Hachette Livre Australia is part of the Hachette Livre publishing group, France’s leading publishing company. Hachette Livre Australia publishes books across a wide range of areas including fiction, autobiography and biography, memoir, health, self-help, lifestyle, travel, sport, politics, Australian history and children’s. Our internationally successful authors include low GI experts Professor Jennie BrandMiller and Kaye Foster-Powel and the highly acclaimed Shaun Tan. Hardie Grant Egmont Contact name: Susannah McFarlane Position: Managing Director Address: 85 High St, Prahran VIC 3181 Phone: +61-3-8520-6444 Fax: +61-3-8520-6424 Email: info@hardiegrantegmont.com.au Website: www.hardiegrantegmont.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B950 Put simply, we make books for kids. We’re a small Australian kids’ book publisher with big ideas. Alongside the bestselling series ‘Go Girl!’ (one million books sold since its launch) and the award-winning series ‘Zac Power’ (Best Designed Children’s Series), we make books kids want to read in series that keep them coming back for more. HarperCollins Publishers Australia Contact name: Annabel Blay Position: Rights Manager Address: 25 Ryde Rd, Pymble NSW 2073 Phone: +61-2-9952-5475 Fax: +61-2-9952-5444 Email: annabel.blay@harpercollins.com.au Website: www.harpercollins.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 G907 HarperCollins Publishers is one of the largest and most successful publishing groups in the world. HarperCollins Australia publishes across a wide range of areas, including fiction, sport, adventure, history, biography, reference, true crime, parenting, health, food and wine and children’s books. Internationally successful authors include Belinda Alexandra, Colleen McCullough, Tara Moss, Sara Douglass, Donna Hay, Steve Biddulph, Dr Stephen Juan, Jackie French, Gillian Johnson and Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.
Think AusTrAliAn
21
Hinkler Books Contact name: Gary Coppen Position: International Sales Director Address: 45–55 Fairchild St, Heatherton VIC 3202 Phone: +61-3-9552-1333 Fax: +61-3-9558-2566 Email: sales@hinkler.com.au Website: www.hinklerbooks.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 A984 Hinkler Books is an Australian-owned and -based company, marketing its everexpanding lists to markets around the world. Every Hinkler product has been created to exceed market demands. Whether it be lifestyle, reference or children’s titles, our aim is to seek opportunities in the market and create or source the product to satisfy. Hinkler is a market leader in children’s novelty publishing, book and media packages, and lifestyle publishing. We are in the business of providing bestsellers with high-quality production standards at prices always affordable to the average family. Inbooks Contact name: Alexa Burnell/Rachael McDiarmid Position: Product Manager/ Publisher Relations Manager Address: 3 Narabang Way, Belrose NSW 2085 Phone: +61-2-9986-7037 Fax: +61-2-9986-7090 Mobile: +61-409-772-850 Email: aburnell@bennett.com.au Website: www.inbooks.com.au Inbooks provides a comprehensive marketing and distribution service for international publishers who are looking to increase their presence in Australia and New Zealand. Covering the trade, academic and library markets, we represent an extensive number of publishers, ranging from prestigious university presses to library science, scholarly and reference publishers. Targeting bookshops, specialist resellers, libraries, academics and professionals, our dedicated sales and marketing team provides innovative, professional and personalised service to our end customers and our valued agency clients. Melbourne University Publishing Contact name: Louise Adler Position: CEO Address: 1/187 Grattan St, Carlton VIC 3053 Phone: +61-3-9342-0300 Fax: +61-3-9342-0399 Email: mup-info@unimelb.edu.au Website: www.mup.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B954 Melbourne University Publishing inherits the proud 80-year history of Melbourne University Press, which was founded in 1922. MUP publishes books and electronic products over a wide range of subject areas and disciplines. MUP titles are distributed in Australia by MDS and sales representation is through Pan Macmillan. MUP has two imprints. Melbourne University Press brings the best of contemporary scholarship and writing to discerning readers. The Miegunyah Press is supported by the Grimwade family bequest and its illustrated titles are produced to the highest standards of production and design. Murdoch Books Contact name: Amanda Roberts Position: Group Sales Director Address: Pier 8/9, 23 Hickson Rd, Sydney NSW 2000 Phone: +61-2-8220-2447 Fax: +61-2-8220-2558 Email: amandar@murdochbooks.com.au Website: www.murdochbooks.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 C939 Murdoch Books is a leading independent Australian publisher of leisure and lifestyle books, with a particular focus on food, gardening, home, DIY and craft, and a growing and diverse range of Pier 9 general interest titles, including biography, travel narrative, history and gift books. The hallmarks of Murdoch books are rich content that is both reliable and accessible, formats that are innovative and tactile, designs that are bold and fresh, and production values that exceed the expectations of our customers. We also have a vast archive of owned content that can be packaged to order.
New Holland Publishers Contact name: Fiona Schultz Position: Managing Director Address: Unit 1/66 Gibbes St, Chatswood NSW 2067 Phone: +61-2-8986-4700 Fax: +61-2-8986-4799 Email: fiona@newholland.com.au Website: www.newholland.com.au/www.youngreed.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 J936 New Holland Publishers produces quality non-fiction and focuses on lifestyle, travel and natural history-related subjects. Established in 1994, New Holland Australia publishers under two imprints. The Reed New Holland imprint includes literary non-fiction, environmental narratives, and natural history. New Holland publishes books for the world market.
Out N
Peribo Contact name: Jane Coffey Position: Director Address: 58 Beaumont Rd, Mount Kuring-Gai NSW 2080 Phone: +61-2-9457-0011 Fax: +61-2-9457-0022 Email: info@peribo.com.au Website: www.peribo.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 C939 In 2007, Peribo celebrates 21 years of independent book distribution in Australia and New Zealand. Based in Sydney, Peribo provides exclusive sales, marketing, warehousing and distribution services for leading independent publishers from the UK, USA, Asia and Australia. Our extensive range of quality books provide excellent core and frontlist stock to trade, library, specialist and gift markets. Our bestselling subject categories include architecture, lifestyle, fashion, design, gift, photography, gardening, antiques, politics, classics, contemporary fiction, fine art, craft, military, health, self-help, business, travel guides, sport and children’s books. Random House Australia Contact name: Nerrilee Weir Position: Rights Manager Address: Level 3, 100 Pacific Hwy, North Sydney NSW 2060 Phone: +61-2-9954-9966 Fax: +61-2-9954-4562 Email: nweir@randomhouse.com.au Website: www.randomhouse.com.au/rights Frankfurt location: 8.0 S990 With its proud and successful publishing heritage, Random House Australia is one of the country’s leading trade publishers. We are committed to Australian publishing, and our list of titles includes an impressive array of fiction and non-fiction. Authors we publish include: Tom Keneally, Gail Jones, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Carey, David Malouf and Christopher Koch. Spinifex Press Contact name: Susan Hawthorne Position: Publisher/Director Address: PO Box 212, North Melbourne VIC 3051 Phone: +61-3-9329-6088 Fax: +61-3-9329-9238 Email: women@spinifexpress.com.au Website: www.spinifexpress.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B956 Spinifex Press is an independent feminist publisher with an emphasis on cutting edge books and ebooks. Spinifex has a controversial and innovative backlist of international titles across a wide range of subject areas including literary and popular fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Non-fiction areas include self-help, health, feminism, globalisation, prostitution, ecology, Indigenous, work, lesbians, class as well as history, psychology, social sciences, politics, economics and the arts. Our ebook list covers these areas and we are building granular content in essays, short fiction, drama and poetry.
22
Think AusTrAliAn
Steve Parish Publishing Contact name: Lynda Evans Position: Sales Director Address: PO Box 1058, Archerfield QLD 4108 Phone: +61-7-3278-6511 Fax: +61-7-3278-6311 Email: admin@steveparish.com.au Website: www.steveparish.com.au Steve Parish Publishing is a market leader in producing quality Australian natural history and Australiana titles and an extensive range of award-winning environmental education books and activities. Publications showcase the images of Australian photographer Steve Parish and others along with informative text compiled by experts and include: deluxe pictorial and souvenir books; natural history guides; travel guides maps and atlases; children’s environmental fiction and non-fiction; early learning products; calendars; greeting cards; postcards. Universal Publishers Contact name: Mal Taylor Position: National Sales and Marketing Manager Address: 1 Waterloo Rd, Macquarie Park NSW 2113 Phone: +61-2-9857-3700 Fax: +61-2-9888-9074 Email: sales@universalpublishers.com.au Website: www.universalpublishers.com.au Universal Publishers is Australia’s largest publisher of mapping and travel-related products. Its publishing program includes street directories, guides, maps and road atlases. All Universal Publishers products are produced and marketed under two of Australia’s most trusted and recognisable brands—Gregory’s and UBD. Each of these product ranges enjoys a reputation for quality, authenticity and value for money. To complement its local publishing program, Universal Publishers distributes some of the world’s leading travel and cartographic products from publishers such as Berlitz, GeoCenter, Insight Guides, Michelin, Philip’s, Replogle and Stellanova. University of Queensland Press Contact name: Madonna Duffy Position: Managing Editor Address: PO Box 6042, St Lucia QLD 4067 Phone: +61-7-3365-2127 Fax: +61-7-3365-7579 Email: madonnad@uqp.uq.edu.au Website: www.uqp.uq.edu.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 B952 For more than 50 years, the University of Queensland Press has been at the forefront of innovative Australian publishing. It has launched the careers of many great Australian novelists, published contemporary Australian poets, been a pioneering force in children’s and young adult publishing and has set the benchmark for awardwinning scholarly and Black Australian writing. UQP is a dynamic university press known for its risk-taking philosophy and commitment to publishing works of high quality and cultural significance. Wakefield Press Contact name: Michael Bollen Position: Publisher Address: Box 2266, Kent Town SA 5071 Phone: +61-8-8362-8800 Fax: +61-8-8362-7592 Email: michael@wakefieldpress.com.au Website: www.wakefieldpress.com.au Frankfurt location: 8.0 A976 Wakefield Press began publishing art and literary books in the 1940s. We are now recognised as a leading independent Australian publisher, regularly winning literary and production awards. Wakefield publishes around 40 titles a year in the areas of fiction, biography, history, food, gardening, health, travel, art, photography, poetry and popular culture. We love good stories and publish beautiful books. To see our full range of titles, please visit www.wakefieldpress.com.au.
Get the
complete picture of
the Australian
market
GlobalBooksInPrint.com, the world’s premiere unbiased bibliographic database for book professionals, features more than 14.8 million in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming titles from over 40 countries.
Publishers, distributors and rights agents, Global Books In Print provides the latest market intelligence needed to make informed decisions. Be more competitive and more profitable! Target new publishing trends from around the world by using the Awards and Bestseller lists. Know what your competition is publishing. Track your own titles. For new product development – quickly check to see if a title has been used; read Reviews of a proposed author’s previous works; check who is publishing or distributing a title in your market.
For more information drop by the Bowker Stand (Stand # M933) or contact sales@thorpe.com.au or sales@bowker.com
Think AusTrAliAn
23