IAN EXHIBITORS AND BOOKS
YOUR GUIDE TO AUSTRAL
AT THE FRANKFURT BOOK
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Our annual overview of the Australian book market
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Australian exhibitors The Australian Publishers Association’s guide to Australia’s presence at Frankfurt, with a comprehensive listing of Australian exhibitors, their specialities and locations
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Australian bestsellers The top-selling Australian titles of the past year, provided by Nielsen BookScan
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Title preview A look at some of the leading Australian titles featuring at this year’s fair
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ON THE COVER: Think Australian 2011 images include Melbourne icons, The Arts Centre Spire, Federation Square and Flinders Street Station.
Award winners
Title showcase/exhibitor listings
A taste of some of the most-awarded Australian books of the past year
More details on some of the Australian titles and exhibitors
Introduction
Welcome to Think Australian 2011, your guide to the Australian book trade. Produced by industry magazine BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER, Think Australian is an annual overview of the Australian market, providing you with the information you need to start doing business with Australian publishers, literary agents, distributors and other service providers. Now in its ninth year, Think Australian is distributed to thousands of publishers, editors, scouts and booksellers around the world in advance of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Thanks to a continuing alliance with Publishing Perspectives, 20,000 copies of Think Australian will be distributed at the fair, as a supplement to PP’s Fair Daily; and copies will be available at the Australian Publishers Association stand (8.0 B 957). Feel free to share Think Australian with your colleagues and contact us at think.australian@thorpe.com.au to be added to our email contacts list to be alerted to future editions and to receive email updates about the book market in Australia, New Zealand and the region. Think Australian is also online at www.booksellerandpublisher. com.au/thinkaustralian, where you can view this year’s edition and previous years’ as emags.
Thanks to all the contributors to and supporters of Think Australian; to Andrew Wilkins, who will be ‘our man on the ground’ this year; to Nielsen BookScan Australia and the Australian Publishers Association; and to Thomas Minkus of the Frankfurt Book Fair and Hannah Johnson, Ed Nawotka and the Publishing Perspectives team. Tim Coronel Publisher BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au
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Murdoch Books
Murdoch Books is one of Australia’s leading independent publishers both in print and digital. We have an extensive range of lifestyle titles, with a particular focus on food and drink, gardening, home and craft, and a diverse range of Pier 9 narrative titles, including fiction, biography, history, travel narrative and gift books. We aim to publish books that are unique, innovative, entertaining, interesting and above all something that you want to own. We also have a vast archive of owned content that can be packaged to order.
Please come and visit us at the Frankfurt Book Fair at stand number Hall 8.0, D938