Shelf talk: Poetry lines
Friday, 7 February 2014
The next few months are looking promising for poetry fans. In February, Fremantle Press is publishing John Mateer’s Emptiness: Asian Poems 1998-2012. This is the ideal companion to Contemporary Asian...
Shelf talk: Memorable memoirs
Friday, 7 February 2014
Bully for Them is a collection of interviews by Fiona Scott-Norman with famous and successful Australians who encountered bullying at school, including Christos Tsiolkas, Alice Pung, Megan Washington, Marieke Hardy,...
Shelf talk: Listen up
Friday, 7 February 2014
2014 is shaping up as a glorious year for audiobooks, with long-awaited classics and some up-to-the-minute new releases. Jeffrey Archer’s Be Careful What You Wish For (Macmillan Digital Audio, March),...
Shelf talk: Artful persuasion
Friday, 7 February 2014
Following the success of her 2011 book Notebooks, the former director of the National Gallery of Australia Betty Churcher has written a companion title that focuses on her favourite artworks...
Sharing stories: Australian Children’s Laureate Jackie French
Friday, 7 February 2014
Much-loved children’s and YA author Jackie French is the new Australian Children’s Laureate. She spoke to Kate Blackwood about her plans for her term, which runs until 2015. Broadly speaking, what...
Cataloguer blogger: Zac Harding’s career journey
Friday, 7 February 2014
Zac Harding not only works as a community learning librarian at Shirley Library in Christchurch, New Zealand, but also runs a book blog and is a judge in the 2014...
Licensed to thrill: Publishers’ licensed lists
Friday, 7 February 2014
With brand licensing proving to be a growing area in book publishing, Kate Blackwood asks three local publishers about their licensed lists. Hardie Grant EgmontThere are 12 brands on Hardie Grant...
Book bites: Forthcoming junior titles
Friday, 7 February 2014
A new chapterSome much-loved series have new instalments due out this year, while other series are just taking off. As a follow-up to the popular ‘Our Australian Girl’ series, Puffin...
Words of war: The market for military history titles
Friday, 7 February 2014
As the centenary of World War I approaches, Brad Jefferies reports on the market for military histories. The audience for military history books can be divided into two broad categories: general...
In the picture: The demand for graphic novels
Friday, 7 February 2014
Demand for graphic novels continues to grow, but how are booksellers, publishers and librarians responding? Portia Lindsay reports.At last year’s Reading Matters conference in Melbourne, Raina Telgemeier’s graphic novels sold...
Authentic expansion: Susanne Horman tells the story of Robinsons Bookshop
Friday, 7 February 2014
From its first store in Frankston’s Central Carpark to its forthcoming outlet in the Emporium Melbourne shopping complex, Robinsons Bookshop has come a long way. Owner Susanne Horman shares her...
Talkback: On dropping the C-format paperback
Friday, 7 February 2014
Should the book industry drop the C-format paperback? Books+Publishing asked five booksellers.Mary Dalmau, general manager, Reader’s Feast Bookstore Nicole, our fiction buyer, and I see no reason to dispense with the C-format paperback. While...
Business smarts: Changing business models in publishing
Friday, 7 February 2014
There’s more than one way to publish and sell books. Andrea Hanke and Eloise Keating spoke to several publishers that have recently changed their business models. Simon & Schuster relaunches local...
Artistic licence: Emily Bitto on ‘The Strays’
Friday, 7 February 2014
Emily Bitto’s debut The Strays (Affirm Press, May) tells the story of a young girl ‘wooed by a progressive group of artists living in 1930s Melbourne’. She spoke to reviewer...
Alex Adsett on applying ethics to ebooks
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
In this age of fast-paced technological change, readers are faced with more choice than ever as to how and where to acquire their reading material. No longer is buying a...
Rastafarian summer: Jared Thomas on ‘Calypso Summer’
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Jared Thomas is author of Calypso Summer (Magabala, April), a YA novel that charts a summer in the life of a dreadlock-wearing, reggae-loving Nukunu teen. He spoke to Heath Graham.First of...
On tour: Meet the author Liz Pichon
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
What would you put on a shelf-talker for your book? Want to get your kids reading? Try these books (they’re funny too).What are you reading right now?Difficult Men by Brett Martin...
Julietta Jameson on the royalty payment cycle
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Why should authors have to wait up to nine months to be paid royalties? Julietta Jameson spoke to Text publisher Michael Heyward, literary agents Selwa Anthony and Lyn Tranter, and...
Table manners: Sally Piper on ‘Grace’s Table’
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Sally Piper’s novel Grace’s Table (UQP, April) uses the device of a meal—preparation, serving, eating and aftermath—to tell the life story of a 70-year-old woman. She spoke to reviewer Max...
Something fishy: Robert Edeson on ‘The Weaver Fish’
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
The Weaver Fish (Fremantle Press, March) is a fiendishly clever puzzle of a book, writes reviewer Tim Coronel. (Read the review here.) He spoke to Robert Edeson. This book is...
Kelly Fagan: Key findings on UK publishers’ marketing and publicity developments from my Unwin Trust Fellowship
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
As a recipient of the 2013 Unwin Trust Fellowship, HarperCollins publicity manager Kelly Fagan travelled to the UK last year to research new developments in marketing and publicity among UK publishers. Here...
Miriam Cosic on the decline of book launches
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
The launch of Chris Andrews’ latest book of poetry, Lime Green Chair, in February was delightful. It was a full house upstairs at Gleebooks in Sydney. I bought a copy...
Charlotte Harper on the transition from digital to print
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Charlotte Harper, founder of digital-first publisher Editia, has written an essay for if:book Australia’s N00bz series reflecting on the publisher’s first print book releases. Editia and if:book will jointly publish the collected essays...
Under cover: Amanda Wildsmith on book cover design
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Earlier this year at the Hardie Grant office I noticed a group of people crowding around a computer. My curiosity got the better of me and I got closer. ‘Does...
What’s selling after Christmas?
Friday, 22 November 2013
While booksellers are currently focussed on those all-important Christmas sales, it’s worth taking a look at some of the titles that sell well in the post-Christmas period. Nielsen BookScan has...
Annabel Smith on (not) making a living from writing
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
In a blog post for the Wheeler Centre, Annabel Smith shares some sobering figures on authors’ earnings. Nowadays, a multitude of blog posts, webinars and online courses tout the idea...
On tour: Meet the author Samantha Shannon
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
UK author Samantha Shannon is visiting Australia in November for the Supanova pop culture expo. Shannon’s debut novel The Bone Season (Bloomsbury) is the first book in a seven-part series....
On tour: Meet the author André Leslie
Thursday, 31 October 2013
André Leslie, an expat Australian who moved to Germany in 2005, is visiting Australia in December. His first book Batting for Berlin: How One Aussie Expat Took on the German...
Dispatches from the Frankfurt Book Fair
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Frankfurt Book Fair first-timer, Giramondo’s Alice Grundy, and long-time attendee, Allen & Unwin’s Clare Drysdale, take us behind-the-scenes at this year’s fair. Alice Grundy, managing editor, Giramondo, writes: Imagine the busiest place you’ve...
Talkback: Book reviews and book sales
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Do book reviews in local and national newspapers make a difference to your sales? Bookseller+Publisher asked three booksellers. I’ve spent the past 12 years cutting out the reviews in the...
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