Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Looking for some last-minute Father’s Day ideas? Andrea Hanke rounds up some of the publishers’ highlights, from new books to mark anniversaries for Wisden and Bathurst, to reflections of boyhood...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Earlier this month, Andrea Hanke joined several members of the Australian book industry on a trip to the Tiwi Islands to visit some of the schools involved in the Indigenous...

Wednesday, 14 August 2013
When Cordelia Rice spoke to publishers and booksellers about new adult books for her feature in Junior Issue 3, she found that there is still some confusion about the genre and...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
In the latest instalment in our series of opinion pieces from booksellers, Tim White from Books for Cooks makes the case for increased social interaction between booksellers, publishers and authors....

Friday, 26 July 2013
Publishers say it’s almost impossible to convince booksellers to stock titles with disappointing BookScan figures, but examples of successful ‘book rejuvenations’ offer some hope. Read Portia Lindsay’s piece online here.  

Wednesday, 24 July 2013
‘Many people appeared very surprised that even without her name on the cover in 72-point font, J K Rowling’s quality of writing did not shine through and propel The Cuckoo’s...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013
In the latest instalment in our series of opinion pieces from booksellers, Christopher Currie from Avid Reader argues that the book industry needs to get better at sharing information. ‘If...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Boffins Bookshop in Perth has won Specialist Bookseller of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards for six years running. Some of Boffins’ bookselling strategies include monthly meetings in...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Following the dramatic events in Canberra over the past fortnight, several books about Australian politics have been fast-tracked to publication. These include Downfall: How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart...

Wednesday, 26 June 2013
In a new instalment in our series of opinion pieces from booksellers, Louise Fay from Dymocks Adelaide calls on publishers to deliver new-release titles more promptly in line with online...

Wednesday, 19 June 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. Find out what they had to say about...

Thursday, 13 June 2013
‘I think the marketing of individual books is largely unsophisticated and that an opportunity to market reading and books as a whole may be worth exploring.’ Andrea Hanke spoke to...

Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Did you know that Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Melina Marchetta’s On the Jellicoe Road are being adapted into films? Andrew Wrathall spoke to the authors to find out how...

Wednesday, 29 May 2013
In the second instalment in our series of opinion pieces from booksellers, Embiggen Books co-owner Warren Bonett argues that the publishing industry could do more to promote books and reading, including developing schools-based...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013
In a speech delivered at a publishers’ conference in the UK earlier this year, the Bookseller’s editor Phillip Jones argued that ‘bookshops can help themselves. But bookshops won’t survive unless...

Wednesday, 8 May 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...

Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Looking for some last-minute Mother’s Day tips? Melbourne bookseller Corrie Perkin is anticipating strong sales for The Bookery Cook from Aussie blogger sisters Jessica, Georgia and Maxine Thompson, Z: A Novel...

Wednesday, 24 April 2013
‘There are disadvantages to signing with a traditional publisher. Certainly, traditional publishing is far slower than self-publishing. Gone are the good old days of finishing a book and uploading it...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
‘With publishing currently facing such drastic change, one might expect that the tone of the conference would have been doom and gloom, with a soupçon of fear. Far from it....

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Text Publishing’s success in foreign rights sales is well known, including, most recently, its 30-plus foreign rights deals for Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project. Playing a critical role in this success...

Friday, 5 April 2013
There has been a flurry of awards announcements over the past few weeks, including the winners of the Indie Awards, the shortlist for the Stella Prize and the longlist for the...

Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Andrew Kelly was one of eight Australian publishers attending this year’s Australia-China Publishing Forum. He writes: ‘The general view following the business-matching sessions was that the Chinese publishers were particularly interested in series....

Wednesday, 20 March 2013
‘You’re not designing something competing for attention on a shelf. Instead it’s in a sidebar or on a homepage competing with content or ads, so it needs to be more...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of POD and short-run digital printing, but what are some practical examples of their benefits? Sophy Williams from Black Inc., Kiri Falls from UWA Publishing,...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
‘As with any conference, some content was more relevant or insightful than other content, and one of the things that stood out markedly was just how different the market in...

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
‘For trade nonfiction—particularly books about issues of the moment or by or about celebrities—radio and television publicity is often more crucial than reviews in achieving sales momentum. But fiction is...

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Similar to selling on the shop floor, selling children’s books online requires its own particular skills. Readings’ children’s book buyer Emily Gale recently introduced an online series called Ask a...

Wednesday, 13 February 2013
In Australia, males aged under 35 are the most likely to have bought an ebook in the past six months, with adult fiction representing 50% of overall ebook purchases, according...

Wednesday, 6 February 2013
The choice between digital and printed proofs is dividing booksellers, according to Books+Publishing’s latest Talkback column. Gleebooks’ David Gaunt and Dymocks Adelaide’s Mandy Macky both prefer printed proofs, with Macky...