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...