Posts filed under ‘Industry Views’
The Book Industry’s Night of Nights
Last Friday night the book industry celebrated its night of nights: The Australian Book Industry Awards (or ABIAs). It’s like the Oscars but for books! The evening was a celebration of the book in all its forms and those who make the Australian Book Industry one of the most diverse and vibrant in the world.
Sydney Writers Festival 2012
I love Sydney Writers Festival time! I feel like a kid at the Easter Show down at Walsh Bay surrounded by books, authors and stories! While I love getting the chance to meet some of the authors whose books I love I also like the opportunity the festival gives you to discover a new book or author.
Reviving the Australian classic
Text Publishing have republished 30 Australian classics in a bid to keep them in print, because sadly around 20 past winners of the Miles Franklin Award are no longer in print.
Let’s Give Plan C a Try and Change the Way We Apply DRM
“the only viable Plan C, for breaking Amazon’s death-grip on the consumers, is to break DRM”
The Perils of Selling eBooks
Content is king when it comes to eBooks but a bookshop’s content is more than just the books on its shelves. A bookshop’s content is its customers and its staff, its knowledge and expertise and its trust and loyalty with readers. These things should be fiercely protected not traded away. A partnership must be equal otherwise one side will exploit the other.
Aussie Author Month 2012
It’s Aussie Author Month again!
Show Me The Data! Where are the eBook Stats?
Accurate statistical information is vital for everyone in the book industry and at the moment we are missing a vital piece of sales data at a time when our industry is going through a massive revolution
Crikey, eBook Prices! … Beware Predators
What is at stake is a competitive market which ultimately is good for authors, publishers, retailers and most importantly readers.
The Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge
I am going to take the Franklin-fantastic Challenge and read 10 books in 2012 by a female author with at least 4 of them by Australian writer and I will review all 10 of them.
Judging a Book
I was very honoured (and a little bit daunted) about being asked to help judge the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize for 2012
Some thoughts on The Bu$iness of Digital Rights
There is a false perception that illegal downloading is all about getting the content for free. I dispute this. Ask any illegal downloader how much they spend on their internet service and you will quickly learn that they certainly are prepared to pay for their content!
Independent Bookshops Fight Back – Pages & Pages Booksellers launches eBook store
Pages & Pages is committed to offering its customers any book they want, in any format they want.
Australian Book Prices: The Difference is 16 percent
Supply chain inefficiencies in Australia can add up to 16% to the price of books here
Book Pricing – Repeating the same mistakes only on a bigger scale
The real problem with book prices is perception.
Local eBook Options Are the Key to the Future Viability of an Australian Book Industry
Local eBook options are the key to the future viability of our industry. Giving priority of content to multinationals like Amazon, Apple and Google sets off alarm bells. EBooks are a part of the future of bookselling and there should be a multiplicity of players, especially local ones like Booki.sh and ReadCloud, if we want to retain an Australian book industry.
How I Fell In Love with Bookshops
Saturday August 20 is National Bookshop Day. It is about celebrating bookshops all around Australia. In the spirit of the day I wanted to share how I fell in love with bookshops.
Screw Kindle, We’ll be selling our own Colour eReader, but what should we call it?
What’s your idea for an eReader name?
National Bookshop Day – Saturday August 20
Use your love of reading to help others discover the same pleasure…and visit your local bookshop on August 20!
I love this quote about what it means to be a bookseller
“Bookselling was and is for me a cultural and political expression, an expression of progressive change, of a challenge to oppressive authority, of a search for a community of values which can act as an underpinning of a better world. The true profit in bookselling is the social profit; the bottom line, the measure of the impact of the bookshop on the community.”–A. David Schwartz (1938-2004)
Do you have a gender bias about what you read? I think I might do…
Is the under-representation of female writers in reviews and literary awards the cause of a problem or the reflection of the problem?
Book Adaptations
Books are always going to be adapted to the screen because the best storytelling continues to be told in books. The film or TV series of a book can both inspire readers and cause them immense frustration
The Bookseller and The Reader
There is not very much that separates the bookseller from the reader. In fact a good bookseller is a good reader
The Australian Voice in Fiction: What is it? What should it be?
When judges of our highest literary prize believe an old man from the country speaks for modern Australia is it little wonder our society sits on a precipice of intolerance.
