Friday, 25 May 2012
Fiction Nightfall (Will Elliott, HarperCollins, July) Aden wakes up in a blood-filled bathtub in a strange place. He knows he has killed himself, but remembers only fragments of his life....

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
In January 2012, Bowker Market Research conducted a survey into the emerging ebook market in Australia and nine other countries, including the US, UK, India, Brazil and Japan. We share...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
From social media ‘evangelists’ to technophobes, booksellers are a mixed lot—but social media is a learning process for everyone, writes Matthia Dempsey. Using social media to drive community engagement with...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
‘Publishers and designers need to take more chances’ was the message from the judges at this year’s APA Book Design Awards, held at the Powerhouse Museum on 17 May as...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Trade publishing director Sue Hines spoke to Bookseller+Publisher about Allen & Unwin’s new House of Books ebooks list. Will the A&U House of Books titles all be at the same...

Friday, 4 May 2012
In the conclusion to Frank Moorhouse’s ‘Edith Trilogy’, former League of Nations officer Edith Campbell Berry mixes politics with pleasure in post-war Canberra. Moorhouse spoke to Andrea Hanke in the...

Friday, 4 May 2012
Gillian Mears grew up horse mad and horse-book mad. She spoke to Heather Dyer about her latest novel, Foal’s Bread (A&U) in the August 2011 edition of Bookseller+Publisher. (See the...

Friday, 4 May 2012
Stasiland author Anna Funder found the transition to fiction ‘joyful’ and ‘liberating’. She spoke to David Gaunt about her debut novel All That I Am in the August 2011 issue...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Vanilla ebooks have been released by many major publishers in the UK from as early as 2006. They took off in a much bigger way when Amazon launched the local...

Monday, 30 April 2012
As children’s publishers explore new digital formats and online marketing tools, one of the possibilities being raised is the tie-in game. But is this likely to be a successful strategy?...

Monday, 30 April 2012
Jackie French has two very different historical novels for younger readers due out in the coming months. She spoke to Rebecca Butterworth and Hilary Adams I read that Hitler’s Daughter...

Monday, 30 April 2012
What do Kerry Greenwood, Juliet Marillier, Margo Lanagan and Will Elliott have in common? They’ve all been published by some of Australia’s niche genre fiction publishers. Sanna Nyblad rounds up...

Monday, 30 April 2012
Frank Bongiorno has written a comprehensive history of sex in Australia. He spoke to Kate Sunners.  How important do you think a study of Australia’s sexual history is in understanding...

Monday, 30 April 2012
Booksellers need to be more adventurous with their genre sections, writes fantasy author and bookseller Trent Jamieson. As booksellers we need to tend our genre sections, be aware of what...

Monday, 30 April 2012
From (yet more) YA paranormal fantasy to junior-fiction ninjas and picture-book hares, publishers share their most anticipated titles for the year. Picture Books ‘Unforgotten is a breathtakingly beautiful book that...

Monday, 30 April 2012
From (yet more) YA paranormal fantasy to junior-fiction ninjas and picture-book hares, publishers share their most anticipated titles for the year. Young readers Are ninjas the next big thing in...

Monday, 30 April 2012
From (yet more) YA paranormal fantasy to junior-fiction ninjas and picture-book hares, publishers share their most anticipated titles for the year. Young adult ‘Don’t write off paranormal fantasy just yet’...

Monday, 30 April 2012
YA author William Kostakis tries his hand at digital self-publishing. In 2010 my YA novel Loathing Lola was chosen as part of the Get Reading! campaign. Part-way through the campaign,...

Monday, 30 April 2012
While some Aussies pour pints, Sonia Palmisano sold children’s books as she backpacked her way around the world. Bloomsbury Australia’s children’s marketing and publicity manager shares her career journey. I...

Friday, 20 April 2012
It’s an aspect of the industry that’s rarely discussed, but the remainder book trade in Australia is booming, reports Eloise Keating. When Angus & Robertson and Borders stores began to...

Thursday, 19 April 2012
In their first YA collaboration, Justine Larbalestier (Liar, Zombies vs Unicorns) and Sarah Rees Brennan (‘The Demon's Lexicon’ trilogy) have approached the vampire genre from a new angle: the jilted...

Thursday, 19 April 2012
If the news reports and in-the-wild sightings are anything to go by, 2012 is the year of Pinterest and QR Codes. Stephanie Campisi tracks their progress in the book world....

Thursday, 19 April 2012
From Booki.sh to ReadCloud and the recently announced TitlePage Plus, indie booksellers now have a number of options with which to enter the e-retail space. But not all are eager...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Sebastian Barry is a guest of the Sydney Writers' Festival in May. His latest book is On Canaan's Side (A&U). What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book?...