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Broken Things, published by Macmillan Children’s Books in February. “It’s hard to know the full extent of what is on Wattpad because it’s not possible to view it without an account—and I refuse to get one in principle,” she said. “But, for example, the title will be ‘Beautiful
Broken Things by Sara Barnard’ and then the description will be the blurb for my book with a sentence about being able to read it for free online. This kind of thing is relatively easy to find because it comes up on a Google search. If people are copying storylines and characters but not calling it ‘Beautiful Broken Things’, I wouldn’t know.” Barnard also said that Wattpad made it too difficult to report problems. “I was presented with a long form asking for my personal contact information, including my address and phone number. I’m not prepared to give this information up, especially when I don’t see any reason why I should need to provide anything except the ISBN number of Beautiful Broken Things. That should be enough. “As far as I’m concerned, it should be
Wattpad’s responsibility to tackle copyright violation on their site, rather than putting the onus on authors and their publishers.” When contacted by The Bookseller, Wattpad said it had a “zero-tolerance” policy on plagiarism. Head of community Marc Shewchun said: “We ask users to make sure they wrote, own the rights to, or have received permission from the copyright-holder before any content is uploaded to Wattpad. Users are encouraged to report any potentially infringing content for investigation. If an upload violates the content guidelines, it is removed. “There are over 250 million story uploads on
Wattpad and upwards of 300,000 new uploads are added every day. We rely on an in-house community team, a global team of ambassadors and a proprietary algorithm to monitor the platform to ensure users are not posting other people’s stories as their own. It’s a monumental task, but one we take very seriously.”
New Zealand indie to launch European push from Bristol HQ
Book Island, winner of the Best Publisher in Oceania Award at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair last month, is moving its headquarters from New Zealand to Bristol as it looks to grow its UK presence. The independent publishes picture books
in translation in English and Dutch, and its owner Greet Pauwelijn right, a Dutch- speaking Belgian, said she needed to move in order to expand the business. “Book Island is now well established in New Zealand and Australia and to enable the company to grow, we need to expand our business in the UK,” she said. “This will only work by being there physically. The UK has plenty of children’s book festivals and conferences that we can participate in. I often get invited to present talks and lectures about picture books in translation and won’t have to decline these invitations anymore once based in the UK.” The company will also have better access to Belgium and the Netherlands for its Dutch-language titles, she added. Pauwelijn is moving to the UK with her husband and children, and said they chose Bristol because they liked the vibe of the city. “Having lived in a small coastal village in New Zealand, it shouldn’t be too much of a shock to move to a city of that size. From the city it won’t be too far to the sea and the beautiful English and
Welsh countryside.” She is looking to open an office
in the city and will begin hiring in June, particularly in the sales and marketing fields. The New Zealand office
will remain open and be run by the sales team there. Since launching three years ago,
Pauwelijn has published titles such as The Lion and the Bird by Marianne Dubuc and The Umbrella by Ingrid and Dieter Schubert; in the UK they were sold by Signature Books and distributed by Central Books. Once based in the UK, Book Island will aim to publish six to eight titles in English and two to four titles in Dutch every year.
Little Island publishes
translated titles and will not be looking to publish British authors at this stage.
POS LAST TITLE
FICTION CHILDREN’S & YA
10 TOP
3 New The Girl of Ink & Stars 4 New A Court of Mist and Fury 5 New Rent A Bridesmaid 6 7 8 9
1 Awful Auntie
3 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul 5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 7 Gangsta Granny
10 4 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them *Week ending 7th May
AUTHOR
1 New Tom Gates: Super Good Skills (Almost . . .) Pichon, Liz 2 New Hidden Oracle
Riordan, Rick
Wilson, Jacqueline Walliams, David Kinney, Jeff Rowling, J K
Walliams, David Rowling, J K
PUBLISHER Scholastic
Puffin
Millwood-Hargrave, Kiran Chicken House Maas, Sarah J.
Bloomsbury Doubleday Children’s Bloomsbury
ISBN
PUB DATE RRP ASP UNITS
9781407157856 May 16 £10.99 £7.43 6,820 9780141363912 9781910002742 9781408857885 9780857532725
HarperCollins Children’s 9780007453627 Puffin
9780141354224 9781408855652
HarperCollinsChildren’s 9780007371464 Bloomsbury
9781408803011
May 16 £12.99 £9.70 6,693 May 16 £6.99 £5.07 4,429 May 16 £7.99 £6.06 4,151 May 16 £12.99 £7.85 4,127 Feb 16 £6.99 £4.34 3,352 Jan 16 £6.99 £4.53 2,489 Sep 14 £6.99 £5.14 2,384 Feb 13 £6.99 £4.29 2,368 Jul 09 £4.99 £4.46 2,332
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