Quote of the week
Thursday, 28 January 2016
‘It’s one thing for a producer or manufacturer to compete with a cheaper competitor. It’s another to compete with your own work being sold back cheaply in to your own...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
‘What is it about Australia that we can take out a bunch of writing organisations and expect there not to be serious damage caused to our culture?’—Australian Writers Guild WA...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
‘There are many reasons for the decline in authors’ income, but unfair terms in publishing agreements contribute significantly to the plight of authors’—Australian Society of Authors chair David Day and...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
‘Colouring books have performed well across the whole market for much of the year and I think that has encouraged more people into shops who've clearly been buying other things...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
‘The PIRs should finally be abolished, buried and cremated so they don’t rise like zombies in a quite different future’—former Wiley MD Peter Donoughue argues for the repeal of parallel...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
‘There is a wide range of views within the book industry, and even amongst booksellers, about the impact that this will have on the sector’—ABA CEO Joel Becker responds to...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
‘The recent debates around the Book Council funding and membership belie the work already undertaken on behalf of creators by ALAA and by many of the industry partners involved’—Australian Literary...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
‘I’m not saying for a moment that money will return to the Australia Council. What I’m saying is that … the exact nature and design of the [National Program for...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
‘It is a remarkably staid collection of voices, one that does not represent Australian letters in their diverse and exciting entirety’—Australian writer Jessica Freidman on the make-up of the Book...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
‘This is an unprecedented and extreme action by the Film and Literature Board of Review. Banning books is not the New Zealand way’—Publishers Association of New Zealand president Melanie Laville-Moore...
Quote of the week
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
‘Most of all, I witnessed a fierce determination to nurture and support their kids through reading and education, something often missing from the news coverage about indigenous communities we see...
