Posts tagged ‘bookselling’
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)
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
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.
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the current PIRs are out-of-date, out-of-touch and are causing great damage to the Australian Book Industry rather than protecting it.
What Price A Book in Australia?
While prices in this country are influenced by people thousands of miles away who view our market as nothing more than a small outpost, have no real investment in our market or knowledge of what is happening here; then our market is truly doomed
eBooks- Is there a place for Independent Bookshops?
eBooks will need independent bookshops just as much as independent bookshops will need eBooks
Australian Digital Publishing Symposium
There still remain significant impediments to any Australian retailer wanting to get into the eBook market.
