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...