Retail rewards: An interview with Len Vlahos
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
US book-industry insider Len Vlahos will deliver the keynote at this year’s Australian Booksellers Association conference. Vlahos is the new owner of Denver bookstore chain Tattered Cover, former executive director...
Expounding and expanding: On Wellington’s Unity Books
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Books, people, ideas and a strong sense of community are at the heart of Unity Books in Wellington, writes co-owner and manager Tilly Lloyd. I doubt many Australian sports people,...
Your store: Non-book item of the month
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
This pack of three acrylic coffee templates from DOIY Design helps spruce up your morning coffee whether you’ve got a barista’s skills or not. Each come with three shapes—a love...
Your store: Strictly business
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
To sell business books successfully you need to invest time in selection, says Boffins Books co-owner Bill Liddelow. ‘Don’t fall into the trap of just having some “Dummies” or “Idiot’s...
Your store: Strong foundations
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Melbourne bookseller Readings was named the inaugural Bookstore of the Year at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards in April. The judges highlighted Readings’ events program and its two...
Grant designs: Bookstores on their James Patterson grant projects
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. What do you...
Behind the Mike: Profile of Mike Shuttleworth
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Mike Shuttleworth is the campaign manager for the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers the Australian Children’s Laureateship. He has also worked as an events programmer, curator and reviewer. He...
Unstuck in the middle: Middle-grade fiction in Australia
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Middle-grade children’s fiction is underrepresented—and often misunderstood—in Australian publishing, writes Danielle Binks. When people talk about younger readers, the language often invokes building and architecture—gateway literature, foundation years—and for good...
Book bites: A taste of books to come
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
In the picture Move over wombats. Koalas take a starring role in two forthcoming picture books from Scholastic. Don’t Call Me Bear by Pig the Pug author Aaron Blabey (August)...
Shelf talk: Good sports
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Every Anzac Day commentators make a false equivalence between the efforts of Australia’s troops and the men paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a ball around some grass....
Shelf talk: Memorable memoirs
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Foreign Soil author Maxine Beneba Clarke’s forthcoming memoir The Hate Race (Hachette, August) is surely one of the most anticipated of the year. It tells the story of Clarke’s life...
Shelf talk: Crime pays
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The winter months will be big for crime lovers with both the Davitt Awards and Ned Kelly Awards scheduled to be announced, and a swathe of new titles due to...
Shelf talk: The write stuff
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Writers looking for tips or a way to procrastinate under the guise of productivity can look forward to writing guides from two of Australia’s funniest authors. Catherine Deveny’s Use Your...
Shelf talk: Classic comics
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Graphic novels are heating up as more progressive genres are being tackled by ever more daring creators. Punpun is an average kid in an average town... whose life turns decidedly...
Where does a book sell and why: A look at sales for different channels
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Nielsen Book Australia general manager Shaun Symonds takes a closer look at sales for indies, chains and discount department stores. Consumers buy books in many places, from a planned purchase...
Talkback: Too many writers’ festivals?
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Does Australia have too many writers’ festivals? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. While there are a lot of writers’ festivals, it’s not the number that’s the problem. What is problematic is...
Pricing our business: Terri-ann White on book prices
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
UWA Publishing director, author and former bookseller Terri-ann White calls for industry-wide resistance to lower book prices and greater efficiency in distribution in her latest column on the state of...
Wood awarded $100,000 Charles Perkins Centre fellowship
Monday, 9 May 2016
Author Charlotte Wood has been awarded the University of Sydney’s $100,000 Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence fellowship. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the university announced the fellowship for a...
UK diversity in publishing network established
Monday, 9 May 2016
A network for people working in the UK publishing industry who are from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds has been established, reports the Bookseller. The BAME in Publishing...
Penguin to pay Consumer Affairs $30,000 over ‘The Whole Pantry’ publication
Monday, 9 May 2016
Penguin Australia will pay Consumer Affairs Victoria $30,000 and include a prominent warning notice on any future books making statements about natural therapies, as part of an ‘enforceable undertaking’ following...
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Friday, 6 May 2016
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 10 reviews of books publishing in June and July 2016, including three five-star reviews. Reviewer Margaret Hamilton awarded top marks to My Brother (Dee, Oliver...
Herrera, Dillman win Best Translated Book Award 2016
Friday, 6 May 2016
Mexican author Yuri Herrera and translator Lisa Dillman have won the US$10,000 (A$13,380) Best Translated Book Award for Signs Preceding the End of the World (And Other Stories Publishing), reports...
New Zealand YA review site launches
Friday, 6 May 2016
A group of New Zealand writers and editors associated with the journal New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa have launched a website for reviewing and discussing New Zealand YA books. Hooked...
Scholastic publishes first Kids & Family Reading Report on children’s reading habits
Friday, 6 May 2016
Scholastic has released the findings from its first Kids & Family Reading Report Australia, a survey of 1748 children aged six to 17 and parents exploring family attitudes and behaviours...
All the rage: Claire Zorn on ‘One Would Think the Deep’
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Claire Zorn’s One Would Think the Deep is an exploration of violence and grief that ‘has all the trademark complexities of her first two novels’, writes reviewer Bec Kavanagh. She...
Race relations: Randa Abdel-Fattah on ‘When Michael Met Mina’
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s When Michael Met Mina follows the burgeoning relationship between Mina, a ‘scholarship girl’ originally from Afghanistan, and Michael, whose family belongs to a racist political organisation. Reviewer Frances...
On tour: Michael Grant
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Michael Grant’s latest book is Front Lines (HGE). He is travelling to the Sydney Writers’ Festival and Brisbane in May What would you put on a shelf-talker for your latest...
Mills & Boon UK partners with Gransnet online community
Thursday, 5 May 2016
In the UK, Mills & Boon has announced it will partner with the online network for grandparents Gransnet to ‘provide readers with quizzes, competitions, seasonal round-ups, reciprocal advertising and newsletter...
ILF raises $285k in first quarter, announces new sponsorship
Thursday, 5 May 2016
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has raised $285,000 in the first quarter of 2016, and has secured a new $10,000 sponsorship from 1010 Printing, which will fund three of its...
NZ Makereti named Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional winner
Thursday, 5 May 2016
New Zealand writer Tina Makereti has been announced as one of five regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story ‘Black Milk’. Makereti’s coming-of-age story won...
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