Wednesday, 30 January 2013
According to a recent report from PwC on multichannel retailing, ‘social media will for the near future remain a backwater sales channel, if you can call it a sales channel...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013
With Margaret Atwood, China Miéville and Kevin Powers on the line-up for next month’s Perth Writers Festival, you can expect to hear a lot more about these authors in the...

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
How can bookstores increase their chances of hosting author events? Eloise Keating got some insiders’ tips from Jane Novak and Jennifer Kean, publicity managers at Text Publishing and Hardie Grant Egmont,...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Now that the ‘best books of 2012’ lists have been put to bed, it’s time to turn to 2013. In Bookseller+Publisher’s annual feature, we ask publishers to tell us which...

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
In November, Simon & Schuster UK chief executive and managing director Ian Chapman travelled to Australia to help S&S Australia celebrate its 25th anniversary. He spoke to Eloise Keating about plans for S&S Australia’s...

Wednesday, 5 December 2012
US-based Australian literary agent Virginia Lloyd recently travelled to Australia to meet with some of the major trade publishers. On her blog she summarises what Australian publishers are looking for, based on her...

Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Ever wondered which Australian authors are the most bankable in indie bookstores over Christmas? Nielsen BookScan has put together a list of Australian authors who have appeared the most times...

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Several weeks ago we published an open letter to the publishing industry from Zoe Dattner calling for greater flexibility in the workplace, in particular, to encourage more women to return to...

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
In Peter Donoughue’s keynote address at the Small Press Network’s Independent Publishers Conference, he argued that the publishing industry has been fighting too many ‘shameful wars’. ‘The industry went to war with Google; it’s...

Thursday, 8 November 2012
Former Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel gave a speech at the Wheeler Centre today as part of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference. He said: ‘Nielsen BookScan’s pie of one third market share...

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
When Zoe Dattner began working in publishing 12 years ago, ‘highly skilled and experienced women working in all aspects of publishing would go off “on leave” with hugs and smiles...

Wednesday, 24 October 2012
‘Here at Books for Cooks, we are looking long and hard at the forthcoming publishers’ catalogues and book lists for Christmas. It’s with a mixture of equal parts excitement and...

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Every year Bookseller+Publisher asks Australian rights managers and literary agents to tell us how business is going. Who’s buying Australian books? Which territories are on the rise? What genres are on...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Two new consumer reports from Bowker, parent company of Bookseller+Publisher, look at how book buyers are discovering the books they purchase in the digital age. Read about the results online...

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
You may have noticed that Australia’s copyright industries—including book publishing, bookselling, and the library sector—have been in the news over the past few months, thanks to two reports that were...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Catherine Schulz, manager of Fullers Bookshop Hobart, is one of a group of independent booksellers around Australia who meet once a year for an intense caffeine-fuelled few days to decide what...

Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Readings’ Mark Rubbo believes a global price on books is necessary to give local booksellers a fighting chance. He writes: ‘One might say $40 for J K Rowling’s new novel The...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012
What do Corrupted Classics, URL Love, BookCupid and Bogan Baby Names have in common? They’re all digital products being developed as part of HarperCollins’ Project Flash Pub—an in-house competition in...

Tuesday, 21 August 2012
What happens when co-authors want to work with different publishers on the re-issue of their book? Text Publishing's Michael Heyward tells Bookseller+Publisher about the 'innovative' co-publishing arrangement between Text and Random...

Wednesday, 15 August 2012
‘If you’re supposed to spend 80% of your time creating a marketing whirlwind and only 20% writing, plus spending 80% your marketing time being generally charming and only 20% promoting...

Tuesday, 7 August 2012
In an article at Slate, US writer Jacob Silverman argues that today’s online book culture has become a ‘mutual admiration society’ that discourages criticism and dissent. He writes: ‘If you...

Wednesday, 1 August 2012
‘Outside of the US, there probably isn’t another single national ebook market that’s big enough to sustain a player on its own in the space of international competition ... Local...

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...