Why some genres suffer more from slashed book pages
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
‘For trade nonfiction—particularly books about issues of the moment or by or about celebrities—radio and television publicity is often more crucial than reviews in achieving sales momentum. But fiction is...
Hugh Mackay’s ‘The Good Life’
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
This is not a book about ‘how to feel good, how to find happiness or how to reap some reward for your goodness’. Hugh Mackay’s message is that while those...
How to sell children’s books online
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Similar to selling on the shop floor, selling children’s books online requires its own particular skills. Readings’ children’s book buyer Emily Gale recently introduced an online series called Ask a...
Jo Case’s ‘Boomer and Me’
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Many of Books+Publishing’s readers may already be familiar with Jo Case, who is well known in Melbourne publishing circles as an editor and reviewer. Boomer and Me, a memoir about...
Who, what and how? Bowker survey provides stats on Oz ebook consumption
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
In Australia, males aged under 35 are the most likely to have bought an ebook in the past six months, with adult fiction representing 50% of overall ebook purchases, according...
J M Coetzee’s ‘The Childhood of Jesus’
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
To say The Childhood of Jesus is a highly anticipated novel is an understatement; there has already been talk that it will bring J M Coetzee his third Booker Prize....
Digital vs printed proofs: booksellers share their views
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
The choice between digital and printed proofs is dividing booksellers, according to Books+Publishing’s latest Talkback column. Gleebooks’ David Gaunt and Dymocks Adelaide’s Mandy Macky both prefer printed proofs, with Macky...
Sue Whiting’s ‘Portraits of Celina’
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Bailey’s family has not had a good year. After her father’s accidental death, her sister has started drinking, her brother won’t take off his Batman cape, Bailey herself has stopped...
Doin’ it for the kids: festival programming for younger readers
Friday, 1 February 2013
Most Australian writers’ festivals offer some children’s events, usually as part of a discrete schools’ program. Kate Blackwood spoke to several festival programmers to get their thoughts on running events...
‘A backwater sales channel’: PwC on the impact of social media on online retailing
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...
Jesse Blackadder’s ‘Chasing the Light’
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
It’s the early 1930s. Whaling is booming in Antarctic waters while the fight for dominance over the land continues. The race to become the first woman to reach Antarctica is...
Katherine Dorrington previews Perth Writers Festival highlights
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...
Alyssa Brugman’s ‘Alex As Well’
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Alex has spent her whole life seeing someone else—the other Alex—looking back at her from the mirror. But now things have changed. A new school, new clothes—a new Alex. However,...
Scholastic report finds preference for print among kids
Thursday, 17 January 2013
A new report from Scholastic has found that the number of children who have read an ebook has almost doubled since 2010, but the majority of children still prefer reading...
The main events
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,...
Poppy Gee’s ‘Bay of Fires’
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Murdered girls washed up on picture-postcard Tassie beaches. You could joke about not telling Tourism Tasmania, but sadly this novel takes some of its inspiration from real events, specifically, the...
Lucky ’13: Publishers’ top picks for the year
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...
Lesley Jørgensen’s ‘Cat & Fiddle’
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Cat and Fiddle, winner of the 2011 CAL Scribe Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript, follows the scandals and fortunes of two connected families in rural Wiltshire ... This is...
Shelf talk: New kids on the block
Thursday, 13 December 2012
In picture books, Chu’s Day by Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury, January) is a playful comedy of errors by a consistently surprising author. And Adam Rex’s bold, colourful illustrations only heighten the...
Eloise Keating interviews S&S UK chief executive and managing director Ian Chapman
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...
Iris Lavell’s ‘Elsewhere in Success’
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Harry and Louisa are preoccupied with closeness, and while they struggle with the ups and downs of their own relationship, this need for intimacy manifests itself most strongly in their...
Virginia Lloyd on what Australian publishers want
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...
Nathan Luff’s ‘Bad Grammar’
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Marcus is a great warrior—a dragonslayer! At least, he is online. Gaming is the one place he feels at home since his only friend Bashir moved to India, a fact...
Nielsen BookScan reveals top Oz authors in indie bookstores over Christmas
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...
Stephen Downes’ ‘A Lasting Record’
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Alongside Rubinstein and Horowitz, William Kapell was widely considered one of the three greatest pianists of his time. Kapell died in 1953 at the age of 31 in a plane...
Industry responses to Dattner’s open letter on workplace flexibility
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...
‘Joyful Strains: Expat Writers on Making Australia Home’ (ed by Kent MacCarter & Ali Lemer)
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
This broad collection of migration stories is an example of a good idea backed up by an excellent execution. Many of the contributors are known names in literary circles: Dmetri...
Peter Donoughue on the publishing industry’s ‘shameful’ wars, and the future for small publishers
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...
Jill Stark’s ‘High Sobriety: My Year without Booze’
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
‘I was the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I wrote about Australia’s booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I wrote myself off.’ A senior journalist with the Sunday Age, Scottish-born...
Tim Coronel: What next for the Australian publishing industry?
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...
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