Thursday, 13 December 2012
It’s a small and often overlooked part of the book market, but audiobooks are showing no signs of decline. Andrew Wrathall spoke to Bolinda CEO Rebecca Herrmann about the company’s...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
The population of Aireys Inlet may be small in winter, but there’s plenty to keep bookseller Nicole Maher busy throughout the year. The owner of Great Escape Books and co-organiser...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Andrea Hanke kicks off another reading year with new fiction from Kate Atkinson and Karen Russell, true stories of shopping and online dating, and some standout YA. Life after Jackson...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
In 2012 it might have been overshadowed by erotic fiction, but there’s certainly no drought in rural romance. In January, Loretta Hill follows up her popular debut The Girl in...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Bolinda’s forthcoming audiobook releases include, in nonfiction, The Great Race by David Hill (read by Paul English, February), a thrilling historical account of the race between the English and the...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
A murdered girl washed up on a Tassie beach, and its impact on a small community, are the subjects of Poppy Gee’s debut novel. She spoke to Catherine Schulz. Given...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Karen Foxlee suffered from severe ‘second novel syndrome’ while working on her suspenseful drama The Midnight Dress. She spoke to Melanie Barton. How did it feel to work on your...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
In 2011 ‘binge-drinking health reporter’ Jill Stark decided to take a break from alcohol, and write a book about it. She spoke to Paula Grunseit. What place has alcohol had...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
What does a sales rep for a digital-only publisher do all day? We spoke to Anne Treasure, digital marketing executive at Momentum.  What was your original job description? Has it...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?  ‘A portrait of a soldier in Iraq.’ You can see that self-promotion does not come naturally to me. What is the...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Local fiction Richard Flanagan’s first novel in five years is Random House publishing director Nikki Christer’s pick for 2013. She describes The Narrow Road to the Deep North (August) as...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
Hardie Grant Books sales rep Mandy Wildsmith has spent 18 years on the road in Victoria and Tasmania. She shares five days from her diary.  MONDAY  The alarm screams although...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
The newly launched My Identifiers platform will help publishers manage their ISBNs and market their books, reports Eloise Keating.  Thorpe-Bowker has officially launched the My Identifiers platform—a new website for...

Thursday, 13 December 2012
What are the potential implications of a merger between Penguin and Random House for the business models of small, independent publishers? Bookseller+Publisher spoke to three publishers. Henry Rosenbloom, publisher, Scribe ...

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Simon & Schuster UK chief executive and managing director Ian Chapman visited Australia in November to help celebrate Simon & Schuster Australia’s 25th anniversary. He spoke to Eloise Keating. You’re...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Several weeks ago we published an open letter to the publishing industry from Sleepers Publishing creative director and Small Press Network general manager Zoe Dattner. In it, Dattner calls for...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of Print on Demand (PoD) publishing. At the Independent Publishers Conference in Melbourne on Friday 9 November, Black Inc. publisher Sophy Williams shared a concrete...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Best known for his book Raising Boys, psychologist Steve Biddulph has written a companion piece, Steve Biddulph’s Raising Girls (Finch Publishing, January). The author spoke to Thuy On. Read the...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Here at Books for Cooks, we are looking long and hard at the forthcoming publishers’ catalogues and book lists for Christmas. It’s with a mixture of equal parts excitement and...