Your store: Chris Currie’s guide to social media success
Monday, 21 March 2016
So you’ve set up your Facebook business page, Twitter and Instagram accounts and found someone willing to post on behalf of your business. So how do you get people to...
Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction
Monday, 21 March 2016
The second quarter of the year is a big one in sci-fi/fantasy circles. There are expos, conventions and the 50th annual Nebula awards all clamouring for attention. It’s also a...
Shelf talk: Craft corner
Monday, 21 March 2016
The following titles have an arty, crafty or inspirational appeal. Penguin—an abandoned, injured magpie chick—came into Sam Bloom’s life after a near-fatal fall left her paralysed. When Sam’s husband Cameron...
Working the crowd: The ins and outs of crowdfunding campaigns
Monday, 21 March 2016
Crowdfunding can be a smart way for small and self-publishers to raise cash and kickstart their marketing campaign, but the odds of success are slim, writes Brad Jefferies. Looking at...
Pearce and co: A history of the Hobart Bookshop
Monday, 21 March 2016
Christopher Pearce followed his father Cedric into bookselling, working first at Fullers and then the Papua New Guinea Bookshop before opening the Hobart Bookshop with his partner Janet, writes bookseller...
Colour by numbers: Shaun Symonds on 2015 and the year of the colouring book
Monday, 21 March 2016
This year Books+Publishing will publish a regular column from Nielsen Book Australia general manager Shaun Symonds on book data trends. In his first column, Symonds reflects on the year of...
Shelf life: Profile of Booktopia’s Christopher Cahill
Monday, 21 March 2016
‘Most people think I work in IT,’ writes Booktopia merchandiser Christopher Cahill. He shares his career journey. When I tell people I’m an online merchandiser nine times out of 10...
Terri-ann White: Is the book industry special?
Monday, 21 March 2016
UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White has written books, taught writing and literature, and owned a bookshop. She joins Books+Publishing in 2016 as a regular columnist examining the book industry and where...
A series of fortunate events: Australia’s first children’s publishing consultancy Stories Inc.
Monday, 21 March 2016
Australia’s first children’s publishing consultancy is helping publishers expand their children’s lists. Carody Culver spoke to Stories Inc. founders Susannah McFarlane and Louise Park. With Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s...
Talkback: Changes to penalty rates
Monday, 21 March 2016
Do you think penalty rates need to change for Australian retailers? Books+Publishing asked two booksellers. Given that penalty rates were established in 1947 to compensate people working outside ‘normal hours’, and that...
‘Four horsemen’ the focus of Digital Book World 2016
Thursday, 17 March 2016
This year’s Digital Book World conference was held in New York from 7-9 March. Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall reports from the event: Digital Book World (DBW) organiser and The Idea Logical...
Nonfiction dominates at Taipei International Book Exhibition
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
A delegation of Australian rights sellers recently attended the Taipei International Book Exhibition. Nerrilee Weir, rights manager for Penguin Random House Australia, reports: The vibrant and energetic Taipei International Book...
Cult following: Em Bailey on ‘The Special Ones’
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Em Bailey’s The Special Ones is an ‘edge-of-your-seat’ YA novel that ‘marks the gradual return of the YA thriller’, writes reviewer Bec Kavanagh. She spoke to the author. What was...
Does publicity sell books? A case study
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Last year, Captain Honey publishers Roz Hopkins and Natalie Winter successfully crowdfunded their illustrated children’s book Mummy and Mumma Get Married. In a recent blog post, reproduced below, Hopkins writes...
Murder most foul: Emily Maguire on ‘An Isolated Incident’
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Emily Maguire’s latest novel An Isolated Incident explores the aftermath of a murder in a small town through the perspectives of the victim’s sister and the journalist reporting on the...
Alice Grundy on OzCo’s exploratory trip to India
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
The Australia Council for the Arts supported a delegation of publishers and writers’ festival programmers to travel to India from 13-25 January to ‘investigate artistic development, market and exchange opportunities...
Macquarie Uni report case study: Simon & Schuster Australia
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Simon & Schuster Australia’s head of publishing Larissa Edwards was interviewed for the Macquarie University report ‘Disruption and innovation in the Australian book industry: Case studies of trade and education...
Spiral of absurdity: Lee Battersby on ‘Magrit’
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Lee Battersby’s first book for children is set in an abandoned cemetery and has ‘echoes of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book’. Reviewer Tehani Wessely spoke to the author....
Stepping up: Catriona Menzies-Pike on ‘The Long Run’
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Catriona Menzies-Pike reveals some surprising facts about the history of women and running in her ‘personal and cultural’ memoir The Long Run. She spoke to reviewer Andrea Hanke. What inspired...
Going the distance: Josephine Rowe on ‘A Loving, Faithful Animal’
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Josephine Rowe’s debut novel A Loving, Faithful Animal (UQP) explores the Vietnam War’s impact on a country Victorian family. It ‘distils the small incidents of ordinary life into moments of resonance and...
Bright spark: Alison Whittaker on ‘Lemons in the Chicken Wire’
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Alison Whittaker received a black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship for her debut poetry collection Lemons in the Chicken Wire. Reviewer Hilary Simmons says it ‘introduces her as a force to be...
Black Inc. and Hachette: how the removal of PIR will affect our business
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
The federal government’s recent announcement that it plans to remove parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books has been heavily criticised by the publishing industry. Books+Publishing asked two publishers, Black Inc....
Innovation and competition: a first-timer’s experience of Frankfurt
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Ventura Press publishing manager Jasmine Standfield attended her first Frankfurt Book Fair last month. She shares her experience and insights. Attending the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time was...
On Tour: Meet the author Mary Norris
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Mary Norris is a copyeditor for the New Yorker and the author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Text). She will be appearing at the Wheeler...
Future reading: Nonfiction top picks for 2016
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Be Mindful and Simplify Your Life (Kate James, January) is ‘a cracking way to start the year’, says Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes. This book of useful and positive bite-size tips will be...
Selling strong: Australian publishers’ rights highlights
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Books+Publishing asked a range of Australian publishers to share their recent rights successes ahead of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. This article first appeared in Think Australian. Allen & Unwin Kate Morton...
Adventures in publicity: Caitlin Neville on her career journey
Monday, 19 October 2015
Caitlin Neville recently launched her freelance publicity business Tiny Fox Communications after working as a publicist for Hardie Grant Books, Pan Macmillan and HarperCollins. She shares her career journey.I was the...
On tour: Meet the author Ayelet Waldman
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Ayelet Waldman is the author of several novels and the nonfiction book Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace (Two Roads). She will be travelling...
Rhonda Black on assisting Indigenous publishing
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Before retiring as director of Aboriginal Studies Press, Rhonda Black oversaw the publication of the Guidelines for Ethical Publishing, a free resource to assist publishers working with Aboriginal and Torres...
Future reading: Fiction top picks for 2016
Sunday, 18 October 2015
A ‘brilliant, dark Tasmanian gothic novel’ tops Affirm Press publisher Martin Hughes’ most-anticipated fiction list. Debut author Sarah Kanake’s Sing Fox to Me (February) tells the story of 14-year-old twins who are sent to Tasmania...
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