Tuesday, 24 July 2012
‘I recently attended the launch of an anthology, which I keep referring to as the worst I've ever attended ... The fault was not in the quality of the writing,...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
A number of booksellers are now able to sell ebooks, but how do you drive customers to your ebookstore? Kevin Guy from Avid Reader and Jon Page from Pages &...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
‘How do you promote a debut novelist when there are so many other writers competing for that publicity attention?’ A Sydney-based literary agent believes the solution lies in a first-novel...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
At Book Expo America last month, book research company Codex Group unveiled the results of a recent study on discovering and selling books in the digital age, which found that ‘among...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Some of our favourite titles this year are Pete Evans’ Pizza; Footy Flavours, a collection of recipes from Australia’s rugby league players; Ben Robertson’s Hear Me Roar: The Story of...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
‘Unfortunately many of the opinions from the book industry that get currency and profile talk directly against what the consumer perceives as their interest.’ Kobo’s Malcolm Neil offers a frank...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
‘Know what you are talking about, have a digital strategy, cultivate and cherish your customers, engage with publishers, celebrate the physical space and please don’t give up.’ ABA keynote speaker...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Booksellers Fiona Stager, Catherine Schulz and Heather Dyer offer their thoughts on the recent wave of branded classics, and the impact of price, design and merchandising on their in-store success....

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
‘Publishers and designers need to take more chances’ was the message from the judges at this year’s APA Book Design Awards. ‘Shelves are full of books that look like each...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
A new review of the Australia Council has recommended a shake up to the way the arts are funded in Australia. Ahead of her last Emerging Writers' Festival as director,...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
‘We’re looking at Pinterest as a static archive of curated links rather than a gallery of images. We want to give people a better idea of the “personality” of Scribe.’...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Momentum publisher Joel Naoum packed his bags for London last year to investigate experiments in digital publishing among UK trade publishers. His report includes case studies of Macmillan’s digital backlist...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Tech-savvy bookseller Tanya Caunce says her Brisbane store has ‘found general fiction to be a dying category and we now specialise in more niche and literary fiction, children’s books and...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Got a suggestion for a future Text Australian Classic? ‘If readers want to email me with suggestions, I would be thrilled to receive them,’ publisher Michael Heyward tells Andrea Hanke....

Thursday, 12 April 2012
‘It’s Thursday morning and I’m waiting at SPUNC HQ for Imogen to arrive. Today we’re going to upload 80 ebooks to Roger, Syd and David*. We’d spent the past few...