Wednesday, 12 November 2014
‘For those of us who were teenagers before the early 2000s, the pickings were slim when it came to books that showed characters talking about sex, let alone actually doing...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
‘The boundaries of what is a diet and what is a lifestyle are ever-changing because of trends in cuisine, ingredients, ideas about physical (and mental) health, and other factors, but...

Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament (Pan) and Ricky Ponting’s memoir Ponting: At the Close of Play (HarperSports) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers chart for July 2013 to...

Wednesday, 8 October 2014
For the 12th year in a row, Books+Publishing has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading. The survey looks at average income...

Wednesday, 10 September 2014
‘For a medium whose language is by and large casual and spontaneous, social media requires a surprising amount of time and effort for businesses. That said, when done right it...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
‘I have always been drawn to the digital publishing start-up, and the endearingly mad people who initiate them,’ writes Zoe Dattner, co-founder of Sleepers Publishing and the Small Press Network....

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
The boom in self-publishing has led to the establishment of a number of different ‘self-publishing support services’, reports Brad Jefferies. He spoke to several local operators, the Australian Society of Authors...

Wednesday, 30 July 2014
With Father’s Day just over a month away, Tim Coronel rounds up some bookish gift ideas for dads. Read his feature online here.

Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Readings bookseller Angela Crocombe visited BookExpo America earlier this year on a Readings Scholarship. She writes that realistic teen fiction, a new US school curriculum and digital subscription models were...

Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke has written a beautiful tribute to Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell for the Saturday Paper. ‘This is just the rough sketch one writer could muster, of...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Bookseller and author Krissy Kneen has run the Good S-x Book Club at Avid Reader in Brisbane for the past two years. Once a month, between 10 and 15 people...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Science-fiction, fantasy and horror specialist Notions Unlimited in Melbourne has launched a gift registry for its customers. Owner Chuck McKenzie says it helps geeky booklovers get what they want from...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Today there are close to 100 literary festivals around Australia, many of them in regional and rural areas. Andrew Nette explores the growth in regional literary festivals and some of...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Last year, Australian ebookstore Tomely launched a Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) bundle for literary journals. Co-founder Connor Tomas O’Brien says the average price paid for the bundle was over $16. ‘Buyers could...

Thursday, 12 June 2014
A desire to create something beautiful, and to experiment with different methods and materials, have informed the careers of Australian picture book illustrators Dub Leffler, Andrew Plant, Marc Martin and...

Wednesday, 4 June 2014
In 2010, Laura Nardo opened a children’s bookshop in the western suburbs of Melbourne. A few months later she moved to a busier and more expensive location and tweaked the store’s...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
How does the children’s and YA book market in Australia compare with those overseas? Three children’s books experts—Marisa Pintado from Hardie Grant Egmont, Susannah Chambers from Allen & Unwin, and...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Bookshop owner and former president of the American Bookseller’s Association Mitchell Kaplan gave the keynote speech at this year’s Australian Bookseller’s Association conference in Melbourne. Kaplan spoke to Andrea Hanke...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Non-book items can improve customers’ in-store experience and offer tempting financial benefits for booksellers, but planning and visual merchandising are critical. Richard Harling, retail consultant for Dymocks, shares his thoughts...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Forthcoming film adaptations of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) and Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Orion), along with the recent release of Divergent (Veronica Roth, HarperCollins), have seen...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
In the latest issue of Books+Publishing magazine, Angela Meyer examines some of the ways publishers and booksellers are promoting ‘untested’ debut authors. Meyer, a debut novelist herself, reflects on her...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Pan Macmillan nonfiction publisher Ingrid Ohlsson learnt to craft books from ‘one of the best editors in the business’, spent 10 years freelancing while raising a family, before moving into senior...