Wednesday, 17 April 2013
‘With publishing currently facing such drastic change, one might expect that the tone of the conference would have been doom and gloom, with a soupçon of fear. Far from it....

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Text Publishing’s success in foreign rights sales is well known, including, most recently, its 30-plus foreign rights deals for Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project. Playing a critical role in this success...

Friday, 5 April 2013
There has been a flurry of awards announcements over the past few weeks, including the winners of the Indie Awards, the shortlist for the Stella Prize and the longlist for the...

Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Andrew Kelly was one of eight Australian publishers attending this year’s Australia-China Publishing Forum. He writes: ‘The general view following the business-matching sessions was that the Chinese publishers were particularly interested in series....

Wednesday, 20 March 2013
‘You’re not designing something competing for attention on a shelf. Instead it’s in a sidebar or on a homepage competing with content or ads, so it needs to be more...

Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of POD and short-run digital printing, but what are some practical examples of their benefits? Sophy Williams from Black Inc., Kiri Falls from UWA Publishing,...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013
‘As with any conference, some content was more relevant or insightful than other content, and one of the things that stood out markedly was just how different the market in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...