In this episode we take a tour of the publishing landscape in the English speaking world.
Check out the biggest to the smallest traditional publishers to see where your book might fit in.
We discuss the following publishing companies, with stories of how they operate, which ones use their own sales representatives and which use distribution companies.
Examples of books and publishing within these companies are given from our own experience.
The Big Five – histories and who runs them here in Australia
Penguin Random House – Bertelsmann Germany
Penguin Random House in Australia
Harper Collins – News Corp US
Macmillan – Holtzbrinck Germany
Pan Macmillan in Australia
Hachette Livre – a French company
Simon and Schuster – KKR, a venture capital company
NB Bloomsbury, the home of JK Rowling and Sarah J Maas do not publish in Australia. We are a sales market only.
Medium size Australia companies
Allen & Unwin: www.allenandunwin.com
Affirm Press: www.affirmpress.com.au
Black Inc.: www.blackincbooks.com.au
Scribe: www.scribepublications.com.au
Pantera Press: www.panterapress.com
Thames & Hudson Australia: www.thamesandhudson.com.au
University Presses
UQP (University of Queensland Press): www.uqp.com.au
NewSouth Publishing: www.newsouthpublishing.com
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP): www.mup.com.au
Small Presses in Australia
Magabala Books: www.magabala.com
Transit Lounge: www.transitlounge.com.au
MidnightSun Publishing: www.midnightsunpublishing.com
Puncher & Wattmann: www.puncherandwattmann.com
Ventura Press: www.venturapress.com.au
Also discussed are:
Australian Society of Authors is www.asauthors.org
Australian Publishers Association is www.publishers.asn.au
We discuss the impact of COVID on sales of books here in Australia, and the downsides of that and then the more recent contraction of the publishing industry here.
The books we have bought or read recently are:
To Sing of War by Catherine MacKinnon
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Jane Curry Links
- Jane Curry Advisory: www.janecurryadvisory.com
- Ventura Press: www.venturapress.com.au
- www.instagram.com/venturapress__
- www.instagram.com/janecurry1
Seana Smith Links
- Seana Smith website: www.seanasmith.com
- Sober Journeys website: wwwsoberjourneys.com
- www.instagram.com/seanasmith
- www.instagram.com/sober_journeys
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/whatdidyoureadtoday/
Buy Going Under
In Australia: Going Under is available in bookshops and online stores in Australia and on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
In the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
In the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
Going Under Audiobook: Going Under on Audible, narrated by Seana Smith, click here.
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