Your store: Napkins a new format
Friday, 5 April 2013
Several Brisbane booksellers have also shown their collaborative side by participating in a recent flash fiction napkin project. Launched on Valentine’s Day, the project saw napkins bearing 300-word micro stories...
Jane’s advice: Jane Caro on bookselling and marketing
Friday, 5 April 2013
As a regular commentator on TV programs such as ABC’s Gruen Planet and the Drum, Channel 9’s Mornings and Channel 7’s Weekend Sunrise, Jane Caro has made a career out...
Talkback: determining the price of ebooks
Friday, 5 April 2013
How do you determine the price of your ebooks and do you ever run promotional discounts? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Phoebe Wynne, digital manager, Black Inc. We determine our ebook...
On tour: Meet the author Hugh Howey
Friday, 5 April 2013
American author Hugh Howey is visiting Australia in April. His latest book is Shift (Century), the prequel to Wool. What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? ‘Help! Don’t let them...
The ebook experience: pricing and marketing
Friday, 5 April 2013
Last year, Ruth Jelley interviewed several Australian fiction publishers—one large multinational, one medium-sized independent and one small independent—about their digital publishing programs. In this edited extract from her master’s thesis,...
Bible studies: Vanessa Russell on ‘Holy Bible’
Friday, 5 April 2013
In Holy Bible (Sleepers, July), Vanessa Russell takes a look at family life in a religious sect. The author spoke to Katie Haydon. It is said to write what you know,...
Literacy outreach: Matt Finch’s work in schools and libraries
Friday, 5 April 2013
What inspires a British academic to stage a zombie siege in a rural Aussie library or teach teens how to con their way into a million dollars? Community outreach consultant...
The end of an adventure: Kate Blackwood on ending a children’s book series
Friday, 5 April 2013
A lot of planning goes into writing a children’s book series—and bringing it to an end. Kate Blackwood spoke to the authors of several well-known series. What makes an author...
Fifty shades later: Andrea Hanke on romance publishing after the erotic fiction boom
Friday, 5 April 2013
Over the past year, Australian publishers have enjoyed a significant boost in sales for romance fiction, mostly fuelled by erotic fiction. But how long will the trend last? And what...
All for mum: Mother’s Day feature
Friday, 5 April 2013
Baking, gardening and craft books will be sharing shelf space with rural romance and suspenseful fiction, predicts Kate Blackwood of this year’s Mother’s Day haul. Food For those who like...
Dymocks stores reopening in Perth, closing in Sydney
Thursday, 4 April 2013
The Dymocks store in Karrinyup, Perth, is reopening and the store in Hunter Street, Sydney, is closing. Dymocks Karrinyup was operating for almost 15 years before it closed in December 2012. The...
Wiley sells 1500 consumer titles to Turner Publishing
Thursday, 4 April 2013
In the US, John Wiley & Sons has continued to sell off its consumer publishing assets, selling its pets, crafts and general interest lists to Turner Publishing, reports Publishers Weekly. The...
More events, fewer books planned at ‘Smiths Alternative’
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Smith’s Alternative Bookshop is being transformed into ‘a more dedicated theatre/event space’ following its recent sale, reports Canberra news website RiotACT. RiotACT reports that new owners Jorian Gardner and Domenic...
Temple’s ‘The Broken Shore’ to screen on ABC
Thursday, 4 April 2013
ABC Television has announced the cast for a television adaptation of Peter Temple’s novel The Broken Shore (Text). The novel will be adapted into a telemovie for ABC1 starring Don...
UK Independent Booksellers Award shortlists announced
Thursday, 4 April 2013
The UK Independent Booksellers Award shortlists have been announced, reports the Bookseller. Among the titles nominated in the adult category are Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)...
In brief
Thursday, 4 April 2013
UK library expert to deliver SLV Foxcroft Lecture The State Library of Victoria (SLV)’s 2013 Foxcraft Lecture will be delivered by British library expert David Pearson. The library said that...
NSW Government to replace public school library system, introduce state-wide ebook collection
Thursday, 4 April 2013
The New South Wales Department of Education and Training has called for tenders for a new public schools library management system, which will include state-wide access to ebooks. The department...
No ‘Books+Publishing Daily’ today
Thursday, 4 April 2013
The Books+Publishing Daily newsletter will not publish on Friday 5 April due to an internet outage. The Daily will return on Monday.
Adult themes: Kirsten Krauth on ‘just_a_girl’
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Reviewer Jennifer Peterson-Ward describes Kirsten Krauth’s new novel just_a_girl (UWA Publishing, June) as ‘an ambitious exploration of the strange ways that people have of expressing love’. The author spoke with...
Pleasing terror: John Harwood on ‘The Asylum’
Thursday, 4 April 2013
John Harwood has written a spine-tingling gothic thriller in The Asylum (Vintage, June). The author spoke to Paula Grunseit, whose review is available here. When did you first fall in...
Publishers, Amazon move to dismiss bookstores’ class action
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
In the US, the big six publishers and Amazon have filed separate motions to dismiss the class action lawsuit filed by three bookstores earlier this year, reports Publishers Weekly. In...
Dymocks reveals 101 Club list for 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Dymocks has released its 101 Club list of the best books of all time for 2013, as voted by members of the company’s Booklover loyalty program. Series were popular in the top...
2013 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards finalists announced
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
The finalists for the 2013 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Picture books A Great Cake (Tina Matthews, Walker Books)...
Seldon Truss returns to ABA
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Tamara Seldon Truss has returned to the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) in the role of member services officer. Seldon Truss, who previously worked in the same role in 2006 and...
2013 NZ Science Book Prize shortlist announced
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
The shortlist for this year’s Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Graft (Helen Heath, Victoria University Press) Science on Ice: Discovering...
US court rejects sale of second-hand digital goods
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
In the US, a district court has rejected the expansion of the first sale doctrine to cover digital files in the case of Capitol Records vs ReDigi, reports Publishers Weekly. In the case, the...
Bologna: middle-grade readers in demand at a subdued book fair
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Andrew Kelly, publisher of Wild Dog Books, reports from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair: The weather was wet in Bologna, and the mood at this year’s book fair was subdued....
‘What Katie Ate’ nominated for 2013 James Beard Foundation culinary awards
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
What Katie Ate by Sydney-based author and photographer Katie Quinn Davies (Lantern) has been nominated in two cookbook categories of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Awards in the US. What...
NLA releases app for digitised sheet music
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has released an iPad app that allows users to browse its collection of digitised sheet music. The Forte app gives users access to the NLA’s...
Australians nominated for 2013 Hugo Awards
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
A number of Australians are in the running for the 2013 Hugo Awards for science-fiction. Australian fantasy author Tansy Rayner Roberts has been nominated for Best Fan Writer. In the running for Best Fancast...
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