Posts filed under ‘Industry Views’
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.
Why it’s worth saving the local book industry
I wrote an article for for the St James Ethic Centre’s Living Ethics publication on why I think people should support Australian booksellers rather than overseas ones.
Aussie Author Month
April is Aussie Author Month, a cross-genre collaboration to support and promote Australian writing.
Print media used to be the friend of the bookseller.
The general reader is quite discerning but if they like the story they can forgive the writing, some reviewers seem unable or unwilling to do this.
Support Your Local Indie
I wrote a piece for our local newspaper, The Mosman Daily, but they only used a couple of lines from it so here’s the whole thing
The Challenges Facing Booksellers
I wrote an article about the challenges booksellers are currently facing for The Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association.
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No Borders but we’re still Restricted
the current PIRs are out-of-date, out-of-touch and are causing great damage to the Australian Book Industry rather than protecting it.
DRM is a necessary evil
DRM is not perfect but it is what it is and I can imagine some other ways to protect a digital work that would be much worse than DRM.
