Wednesday, 24 August 2016
‘Right now, the focus should be on moving forward with legislation to fix copyright’s most egregious and indefensible failures’—legal academics Kimberlee Weatherall and Rebecca Giblin weigh into the debate over...

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘The paper book is a value proposition. Twenty or thirty dollars buys you hours of deep, screen-free, distraction-free reading’—author Nick Earls on the benefits of print books and bookshops.

Wednesday, 27 July 2016
‘My hope is that the whole book industry is allowed to enjoy not only a sales spike on release but strong sales of the book into the future’—Booktopia head of...

Wednesday, 20 July 2016
‘Our culture is skewed towards celebrating and supporting the young and I am not sure what can be done about it’—author Krissy Kneen asks where the support is for older...

Wednesday, 13 July 2016
‘It’s been hard for a decade or more to find much Australian poetry in bookshops, and a folk wisdom circulated that average sales for poetry volumes was miniscule’—UWA Publishing director...

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
‘A large part of our fiction list is translated, and if the pound stays at this low level it will have obviously further increase the costs involved in publishing fiction...

Wednesday, 22 June 2016
‘It is a genuinely exciting opportunity for an Australian publisher and a first for a Chinese children’s publisher to acquire an interest in a foreign children’s publishing company’—New Frontier managing...

Thursday, 16 June 2016
‘Many of the places where author and audience now interact has little to do with retail. It’s via online platforms, social media and writers’ festivals, as evidenced by the growth...

Wednesday, 8 June 2016
‘It’s a dire time for the arts in Australia. It’s not just the cuts in funding, it’s the way that artists are made, in an abundance of casual ways, to...

Wednesday, 1 June 2016
‘Somehow we have to try to find a solution to put this issue to bed’—Readings MD Mark Rubbo discusses parallel importation restrictions at the ABA conference

Wednesday, 25 May 2016
‘It exemplifies how much stronger each year the children’s component of the festival is ... the book sales for kids were enormous’—Gleebooks’ David Gaunt reports on the bestsellers at this...

Wednesday, 18 May 2016
‘The argument is regularly heard that the arts should pay for themselves. This misunderstands the reality of subsidy, because the fact is that there are very few areas of our...

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
‘PIR represents the little ledge of copyright security, the small acre, on which we have created a respected publishing industry, one of the largest in the world, and a treasure...

Thursday, 28 April 2016
‘The battle to get children’s literature taken seriously will never be concluded, because so many adults are invested in not doing so’—author and academic Catherine Butler in the Conversation

Wednesday, 13 April 2016
‘Most contemporary literature effectively circulates within a hothouse of literary culture, mediated by smaller publishers whose audience would appear to be increasingly specialised and insular’—Emmett Stinson examines Australian literary production...

Thursday, 31 March 2016
‘You are storehouses for the kernels not only of our literary culture but our history, our music, our food culture, our health and legal and technological culture, our visual arts,...

Wednesday, 23 March 2016
‘The increasing reliance on freelancers means that there’s less on-the-job training’—freelance editor Pamela Hewitt, interviewed in Portia Lindsay’s article on professional development in the book industry in Books+Publishing magazine

Thursday, 17 March 2016
‘The advantage is almost always on the side of the cunning social arts satellite than the demented scribbler’—Sydney writer Luke Carman delivers an attack on arts administrators in Melbourne’s literary...

Wednesday, 24 February 2016
‘[I’m] grateful to Pan Macmillan for the foresight to set up the imprint in the first place’— Momentum publisher Joel Naoum on Pan Macmillan’s decision to scale down the publishing...

Wednesday, 17 February 2016
‘It’s our belief that if a writer has gone to all the effort to put together a publishing proposal or manuscript, and that we have spent time actually reading it,...

Wednesday, 10 February 2016
‘It’s a lovely thing for me because my books are on the subversive side, and also I think humorous books have been underestimated’—Leigh Hobbs on his appointment as the new...

Wednesday, 3 February 2016
‘An international player can buy directly here whereas Australian retailers can’t source supply from overseas. Either you believe in a free and open market or you don’t’—Dymocks managing director Steve...