Industry responses to Dattner’s open letter on workplace flexibility
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Several weeks ago we published an open letter to the publishing industry from Sleepers Publishing creative director and Small Press Network general manager Zoe Dattner. In it, Dattner calls for...
Black Inc. publisher Sophy Williams on using PoD to publish the US edition of ‘The China Choice’
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of Print on Demand (PoD) publishing. At the Independent Publishers Conference in Melbourne on Friday 9 November, Black Inc. publisher Sophy Williams shared a concrete...
Peter Donoughue on the publishing industry’s ‘shameful’ wars, and the future for small publishers
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Former Wiley MD Peter Donoughue gave the keynote address at the Small Press Network’s Independent Publishers Conference on 9 November. Here is an extract from his speech: The Amazon narrative...
Tim Coronel: What next for the Australian publishing industry?
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Former Bookseller+Publisher publisher Tim Coronel gave a speech at the Wheeler Centre today as part of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference. Here’s some of what he had to say: I’m...
Interview with Steve Biddulph on ‘Raising Girls’
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Best known for his book Raising Boys, psychologist Steve Biddulph has written a companion piece, Steve Biddulph’s Raising Girls (Finch Publishing, January). The author spoke to Thuy On. Read the...
Hill of Content: A brief history
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Melbourne’s Hill of Content Bookshop recently celebrated its 90th birthday. Manager Andrew Robertson shares the store’s history: Hill of Content Bookshop’s founder, A H Spencer was born in1886 at Balmain,...
Beyond bookstores: Books in retail spaces
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Clothing stores, craft shops and even chocolatiers are all potential booksellers, writes Andrew Wrathall. Prominently displayed in Surfection, a clothing store in an inner-city Melbourne shopping centre, is a stack...
Tim White: Does the cookbook industry need a gastric bypass?
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Here at Books for Cooks, we are looking long and hard at the forthcoming publishers’ catalogues and book lists for Christmas. It’s with a mixture of equal parts excitement and...
Following the crowd?: Crowdfunding books
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Crowdfunding is flavor of the month, but is it a long-term answer to publisher and bookshop funding models? Lucy Stewart reports.A phenomenon that began as a way to fund band...
Out of the RED: Banafsheh Serov’s rebranded bookstores
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
When REDgroup collapsed in 2011, franchise co-owner Banafsheh Serov rebranded her family’s stores as Sydney independent Your Bookshop. She now runs four stores. This story does not begin in Sydney,...
Your store: Chapter Two’s pop-up stalls
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Shoppers in Adelaide’s CBD have been treated to a new kind of book-buying experience over the past couple of months, with book stalls popping up on the city’s busy street...
Your store: A royal display
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
To celebrate the launch of Philippa Gregory’s latest novel The Kingmaker’s Daughter in August, Simon & Schuster partnered with Dymocks George Street to create a window display with a difference....
Editor’s picks: October/November 2012
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
The end of the year brings collections aplenty and some excellent YA, writes Andrea Hanke. Of the many collections coming out in the next few months, the one I’m most...
Interview with Pamela Cook on ‘Blackwattle Lake’
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Pamela Cook has created a feisty new character in Eve, the heroine of Blackwattle Lake (Hachette, December). The author spoke to Sarina Gale. Read the review here. You capture the...
Shelf talk: Classic comics
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
At Christmas, it’s best to remember that the rarities in life make for the best gifts. Rarely does a Manga artist gain such success and popularity on his first try;...
Shelf talk: Strictly business
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
‘How do we fix this mess?’ asks Robert Peston in his book of the same name (Hodder, November). The financial crash of 2007/8 and the subsequent economic slump in much...
Shelf talk: Fantastic fiction
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
There are so many cool books being offered for the gift season, but these few caught my particular attention. Krampus the Yule Lord (HarperVoyager, November) by Gerald Brom is the...
Zoe Dattner: Open letter to the industry
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
I first began working in publishing some 12 years ago in the Melbourne offices of a large international publishing company. There was a stationery department and a compactus room and...
The rights stuff: Australian rights trading in 2012
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
For the 10th year in a row, Bookseller+Publisher has surveyed Australian rights managers and literary agents in the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair to gauge the health of Australian...
Cooking the books: Food and drink feature
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
How will this year’s crop of Christmas cookbooks fare? Tiffany Bridger rounds up the highlights. Flavours from afar A cookbook from Tessa Kiros (Falling Cloudberries, Apples for Jam) is a...
Thomas Minkus: Guest of the SPUNC Independent Publishers Conference
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Thomas Minkus will visit Melbourne next month as part of SPUNC’s Independent Publishers Conference. He spoke to Andrea Hanke about some of the interesting smaller publishers his work has introduced...
Get Smart
Monday, 15 October 2012
Andrew Wrathall rounds up some of the Australian Curriculum textbooks coming to schools in 2013. English Two books available in print and digital formats for years 7-10 include ‘Essential English...
Junior book bites
Monday, 15 October 2012
A taste of forthcoming Junior books. Picture books A number of lovely board books are out later this year, including a some readalong picture books by Alison Lester: Run like...
Interview with Nick Falk on ‘Saurus Street’
Friday, 12 October 2012
Nick Falk spoke to Meredith Lewin about his new series, the role of humour, and being frightened of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video. In a story in which two boys make...
Interview with Catherine Jinks on ‘A Very Unusual Pursuit’
Friday, 12 October 2012
Catherine Jinx found that upper English accents came very easily after a lifetime of reading. She spoke to Hannah Francis about her new series and how to scare readers. You’ve...
What teenagers want
Friday, 12 October 2012
Jordi Kerr takes us behind the scenes during this year’s Inky shortlisting process. I am not a teenager. No matter how many books I read or teenagers I talk to,...
A picture of gender
Friday, 12 October 2012
Publishing student Kate McKenzie has conducted a detailed analysis of gender representation in CBCA award-winning picture books of the past 18 years. The findings reveal a worrying amount of gender...
Show and tell
Friday, 12 October 2012
One of Australia’s most popular children’s authors Mem Fox has teamed up with much-loved illustrator Judy Horacek for a second time. Lucy Stewart investigates their collaborative process. Collaborations between children’s...
Meet publisher Julia Marshall
Friday, 12 October 2012
Julia Marshall is the founder of the small but ‘globally focussed’ children’s publisher Gecko Press, based in Wellington, New Zealand. She tells us about her ‘hotch potch’ career path. I...
Book discovery in the online age not as digital as you might think
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Two new consumer reports from Bowker, parent company of Bookseller+Publisher, look at how book buyers are discovering the books they purchase in the digital age. In the US, the most...
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