Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Author Maxine Beneba Clarke has written a beautiful tribute to Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell for the Saturday Paper. ‘This is just the rough sketch one writer could muster, of...

Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Bookseller and author Krissy Kneen has run the Good S-x Book Club at Avid Reader in Brisbane for the past two years. Once a month, between 10 and 15 people...

Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Science-fiction, fantasy and horror specialist Notions Unlimited in Melbourne has launched a gift registry for its customers. Owner Chuck McKenzie says it helps geeky booklovers get what they want from...

Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Today there are close to 100 literary festivals around Australia, many of them in regional and rural areas. Andrew Nette explores the growth in regional literary festivals and some of...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Last year, Australian ebookstore Tomely launched a Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) bundle for literary journals. Co-founder Connor Tomas O’Brien says the average price paid for the bundle was over $16. ‘Buyers could...

Thursday, 12 June 2014
A desire to create something beautiful, and to experiment with different methods and materials, have informed the careers of Australian picture book illustrators Dub Leffler, Andrew Plant, Marc Martin and...

Wednesday, 4 June 2014
In 2010, Laura Nardo opened a children’s bookshop in the western suburbs of Melbourne. A few months later she moved to a busier and more expensive location and tweaked the store’s...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
How does the children’s and YA book market in Australia compare with those overseas? Three children’s books experts—Marisa Pintado from Hardie Grant Egmont, Susannah Chambers from Allen & Unwin, and...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Bookshop owner and former president of the American Bookseller’s Association Mitchell Kaplan gave the keynote speech at this year’s Australian Bookseller’s Association conference in Melbourne. Kaplan spoke to Andrea Hanke...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Non-book items can improve customers’ in-store experience and offer tempting financial benefits for booksellers, but planning and visual merchandising are critical. Richard Harling, retail consultant for Dymocks, shares his thoughts...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Forthcoming film adaptations of The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, Penguin) and Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, Orion), along with the recent release of Divergent (Veronica Roth, HarperCollins), have seen...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
In the latest issue of Books+Publishing magazine, Angela Meyer examines some of the ways publishers and booksellers are promoting ‘untested’ debut authors. Meyer, a debut novelist herself, reflects on her...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Pan Macmillan nonfiction publisher Ingrid Ohlsson learnt to craft books from ‘one of the best editors in the business’, spent 10 years freelancing while raising a family, before moving into senior...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
‘Extracts can be both a blessing and a curse. They only really work for nonfiction and then they mustn’t take the heart of the story or the key facts because...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Books on offer this Mother’s Day include inspirational memoirs, colourful picture books, dramatic debut novels, stylish coffee-table books and rural romances. As Brad Jefferies reports, booksellers also recommend a range of...