Melbourne City of Lit announces Booksellers in Residence program
The Melbourne City of Literature has announced a new initiative for Victorian booksellers to spend a week in an overseas bookshop in another City of Literature. Under the Booksellers in...
Amazon’s AbeBooks backflips after booksellers protest
After two days of striking against Amazon subsidiary AbeBooks, antiquarian booksellers around the world have had success, with the retailer apologising and saying it would reverse the decision that prompted...
James Patterson NZ bookshop grants announced
Four New Zealand bookshops have received grants of up to $5000 as part of James Patterson’s Australian and New Zealand bookshop grants.The recipients are: Hedleys Bookshop, Masterton Wardini Books, Havelock...
NZ to hold its first national bookshop day
Booksellers New Zealand will hold its first national bookshop day on Saturday 31 October 2015. NZ Bookshop Day, which aims to celebrate and publicise local bookstores, is based on similar...
Beyond books: Visual merchandising for booksellers
While the margins on non-book items can be tempting, booksellers need to consider the hidden costs and the effort involved in visual merchandising, writes Richard Harling. He offers some tips...
Tim White on what booksellers want from publishers
Reading Christopher Currie’s opinion piece about what booksellers want from publishers, I was moved first to comment and then to respond. Without detracting from anything Chris raised, all of which...
Christopher Currie on what booksellers want from publishers
In previous articles under this banner, booksellers with far more experience and intellect than I have identified many essential individual ways in which publishers could greatly benefit the lives of...
Louise Fay on what booksellers want from publishers
At the recent Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) conference, Daniel Pink, author of To Sell Is Human, told us that buyers and sellers are now at information parity. Customers have access...
Catherine Schulz on what booksellers want from publishers
For the engaged bookseller, I think the relationship with Australian publishers is quite good. Keeping in touch with publishers via conferences, roadshows, author dinners and office visits (and even facebook...
Kobo, Booksellers New Zealand partnership ‘off to a good start’
The independent New Zealand bookstores that sell Kobo ebooks and devices have received strong support from their customers since introducing the products to their stores, according the Booksellers New Zealand...
When bookstores stock self-published titles
Some booksellers are being approached daily by self-published authors. So how do they decide which titles to stock? Rita Yazdani spoke to three booksellers. When Amal Awad decided to self-publish...
Booksellers welcome classics revival
Australian booksellers have welcomed the recent wave of publishers releasing branded classics, saying they have made classic books more accessible and attractive to readers, and have provided a new angle...
Westgarth Books opens
New bookstore Westgarth Books opened just before Christmas in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote. Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas spoke at the shop’s grand opening, which included live music by local artists. ...
Dan Brown: over 150,000 sold in first week; NZ booksellers unhappy with ebook
Booksellers New Zealand has responded to the release in ebook format of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. The ebook, which Random House has made available to Australian and New Zealand...