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Bricks and Bullshit

Buying books from Waterstones is ideologically similar to buying organic items at Tesco – it’s better than some of the alternatives (ie: Amazon), but I can’t feel as smug as I might if I bought from an independent. Still, there’s so much doom and gloom in the industry news at the moment following the Red [ READ MORE ]

Step Out of Your Shit-stained Pants, Hold Our Hands, And Come With Us, or This Won’t Hurt a Bit

these are times that call for mixed business models[ READ MORE ]

Optimism is Compulsory

This article on Dave Eggers’ optimism about youth literacy and print books (via @Mean_land) made me think of the title of his unfinished Salon.com serial, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, or, Optimism: for Eggers, it would seem, optimism about print books is compulsory, and should not be forbidden. Elsewhere (almost everywhere else), it seems the trend is [ READ MORE ]

Demystifying Rights

I had to do some quick research into ‘second and subsequent serial rights’ recently, and realised it might be worthwhile demystifying some of what I learnt – it’s such a minefield of ambiguity out there, it must be terrifying if you’ve finally got a book deal and then have to learn legalese when you get [ READ MORE ]

Lunchtime Thoughts on Editor Royalties

I don’t know about this one: ‘The Future for Book Editors: Royalties?’ In this article, Ann Patty (former Harcourt publisher from NYC) argues that editors should receive a royalty on profits because they do so much work on books and then get squat in the way of remuneration or recognition. I’ve rewritten books only for a [ READ MORE ]

Indepenwah? or, An Open Love Letter to Julia Gillard

I shook hands with Julia Gillard yesterday morning, and then wound up on the telly about it. She made a rousing speech, praising the values of hard work and education, and I came away feeling really inspired by it all. Like me, Julia was raised in a working class family in Adelaide, where she became inspired [ READ MORE ]

Anti-Saturation: Are Independents Their Own Worst Enemy?

I’m in the kitchen at the café, scraping the detritus of some asshole customer’s food into the bin and the radio starts playing that song I can’t stand. I suddenly can’t tell what I hate more: the fact that I just stuck my finger into a pile of half-eaten and probably now disease-carrying scrambled eggs, [ READ MORE ]

Hey There, Blimpy Boy!

Sam Cooney republished an article he wrote for Bookseller+Publisher about, well, the relationship between booksellers and publishers – and how this relationship is changing as publishers embark on direct-sales ventures, which, I guess, have the potential to undermine the traditional business models of booksellers. On the surface it seems like a superfluous debate, when compared [ READ MORE ]

M@#$eting

I’ve been reading about marketing recently, because I joined the committee of Wet Ink magazine as Marketing Dude, and understanding what marketing means does not come as naturally to me as understanding how to edit a manuscript does. This seems to be a common sentiment in the small-press sector: there is an immense amount of production [ READ MORE ]

It’s Not All About the Money: Legitimising youth literature

An exciting opportunity has come up for young writers at one of Australia’s most prestigious platforms for the discussion of literature, ABC Radio National’s The Book Show. They are looking for five young bloggers to write about book culture on their new blog. I will certainly be applying, and I encourage other young book lovers [ READ MORE ]

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