Will power: William Yeoman on curating PFWW 2018
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
William Yeoman is the West Australian literary editor and guest curator of the Perth Festival Writers Week (PFWW) 2018. Following the launch of the full program for this year’s festival,...
Shining a light: Laura Elvery on ‘Trick of the Light’
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Laura Elvery’s debut short-story collection Trick of the Light (UQP, March) comprises 24 ‘meticulously crafted’ short stories ranging in style from ‘stark realism to light speculative fiction’, writes reviewer Alan...
Speak their language: Reflecting on the ILF ‘Binjari Buks’ project
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
In December 2017, a group of Indigenous Literacy Foundation staff, volunteers and publishing industry supporters visited the Katherine region in the Northern Territory to launch ‘Binjari Buk’, a children’s book...
Wheels in motion: new recruits at the Wheeler Centre
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Veronica Sullivan, Hiroki Kobayashi and Stella Charls recently joined the Wheeler Centre’s programming team, but many in the industry will already know these three from their previous work. Sullivan was...
Book blogger spotlight: Book Bloggers Australia
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Established in 2010 by blogger Margaret Bates, Book Bloggers Australia is an online directory and forum where Australian bloggers can discuss books and blogging, and connect with others in the...
Christmas predictions: Cat Schulz from Fullers Bookshop in Hobart
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our final instalment, Fullers...
Christmas predictions: Gavin Williams from Matilda and Lindy Jones from Abbey’s
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Gavin Williams, owner...
Christmas predictions: Kym Bagley and Rivis Donnelly from Dymocks Melbourne
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our latest instalment, Dymocks...
Where popular meets the professional: Genre Con 2017
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
GenreCon 2017 was the conference’s biggest yet. The biennially-staged writers conference aimed at genre writers sold out its registrations with 240 attendees, up from 190 in 2015. Fantasy writers were...
Christmas predictions: Perth booksellers Bill Liddelow from Boffins Books and Jane Seaton from Beaufort Street Books
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Boffins Books co-owner...
Christmas predictions: Kath Pigou from Dymocks Adelaide
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
In a series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In this instalment, Dymocks Adelaide store...
The light of Sharjah: Connecting the publishing world to the Middle East
Thursday, 9 November 2017
This year's Sharjah International Book Fair was held from 1-11 November in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall was a guest of the professional program. ‘Darkness can...
Finding your community: National Young Writers’ Festival celebrates 20 years
Thursday, 9 November 2017
This year, the National Young Writers’ Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary with a four-day program in Newcastle from 28 September to 1 October. Festival manager Stella Charls, coordinator Maggie Thompson...
Christmas predictions: John Purcell from Booktopia
Thursday, 9 November 2017
In a new series running in the lead-up to Christmas, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and ‘surprise sellers’. In our first instalment, Booktopia’s...
The children’s hour: Children’s rights sales in the Australian book market
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
With children’s books driving book sales locally, Jackie Tang looks at how children’s rights sales are performing for Australian publishers. Children’s books are dominating the Australian market, with children’s and...
The Amazon effect: What the arrival of Amazon means for the bookselling industry
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Recently, communications agency Spectrum Group hosted a panel discussion in Sydney on what the arrival of Amazon means for the Australian retail industry, with a particular focus on booksellers. Moderated...
Behind the marketing campaign: Ashleigh Barton on ‘Nevermoor’
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
When Jessica Townsend’s debut children’s novel Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Lothian) was published on 10 October, the buzz around the novel was immense. In the following week it...
Beyond print: Exploring transmedia narratives
Monday, 23 October 2017
UQP nonfiction publisher Alexandra Payne explores the potential of transmedia narratives for publishers. (more…)
Write on: 2018 fiction preview
Monday, 23 October 2017
New books by Ceridwen Dovey, Kristina Olsson, Melissa Lucashenko, Lloyd Jones and Gerald Murnane, and a number of highly anticipated debuts, are among Australian publishers' local highlights for 2018, reports...
Write on: 2018 nonfiction preview
Monday, 23 October 2017
Andrea Hanke reports on Australian publishers' local nonfiction highlights for 2018. Click here for the fiction highlights and here for the children’s and YA preview. ‘Riffing on the Anh Do...
Flight of fantasy: Tracy Sorensen on ‘The Lucky Galah’
Monday, 23 October 2017
Tracy Sorensen’s The Lucky Galah (Picador, March) recounts the lives of ordinary Australians from the 1960s until the 2000s, as narrated by a galah called Lucky. The conceit is handled...
Shelf talk: A round-up of forthcoming books
Monday, 23 October 2017
Category round-ups of forthcoming titles by those in the know … Crime pays The reliably brilliant author Garry Disher’s new standalone novel Under the Cold Bright Lights (Text, November) stars...
Between the lines: Observations on the trade by Gladys Bembo
Monday, 23 October 2017
It’s that time of year again—the maddest week on the annual publishing calendar, as publishers and agents engage in what was once described to me as a ‘week-long speed-dating orgy’....
Editor’s picks: Summer reading
Monday, 23 October 2017
Jackie Tang rounds up her nonfiction highlights for the coming months. F*ck, sh*t … the compulsion to plop a naughty word with an attention-grabbing asterisk on the cover seems to...
Your store: A round-up of retailing news, tips and titbits
Monday, 23 October 2017
Analogue marketing At the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference in June, The Constant Reader’s Jay Lansdowne hosted a panel on analogue (ie in-store) marketing with Fiona Stager (Avid Reader), Jane...
Summer bestsellers: A look at the post-Christmas charts
Monday, 23 October 2017
When the Christmas frenzy has died down, what sells during the rest of the summer? Brad Jefferies explores the trends behind the post-Christmas bestsellers. (more…)
The millennial market: Publishing for a new generation
Monday, 23 October 2017
They’re a generation more talked about than listened to, but the collective spending power of millennials is set to grow. Sarah Farquharson investigates how publishers are tapping into the millennial...
Natural appreciation: Lex Hirst’s career journey
Monday, 23 October 2017
‘In all my roles I search for talented people with fascinating work and find them new audiences,’ writes Penguin Random House commissioning editor, festival director and arts programmer Lex Hirst....
Talkback: Authors and booksellers on stocking self-published books
Monday, 23 October 2017
With a number of traditionally published authors moving into self-publishing, there’s never been a greater demand for bricks-and-mortar bookstores to stock self-published titles. Andrea Hanke asked hybrid author Ellie Marney...
The reinvention of lit mags
Monday, 23 October 2017
In recent years, Australian literary journals have expanded into public events, unpublished manuscript prizes and even traditional book publishing, and are increasingly being seen as places that nurture vibrant literary...
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