Our writers have been around books for a long time and are never shy to share their opinions…
It seems almost too good to be true. Earlier today I found out about Google’s new ebook service, Google eBooks, which will apparently be available in the US by the end of 2010 and to international markets within a few months of the beginning of 2011. Google once again is poised to change the way … Read more
Charging a browsing fee? Setting the tax and duty de minimus too high for private importations has been extremely detrimental to Australian retailers. This issue has become so big so that a couple of heavyweights in the Australian retail world Gerry Harvey and Solomon Lew have come out swinging in defence of Australian retailers. Their involvement clearly … Read more
Could you use an extra hundred dollars? The Bookshop Blog just launched a new Discussion Community called Readers & Dealers. These types of forums often need a little encouragement to take their first baby steps. This month we are offering $100 of encouragement. The contest is simple enough, between right now and end of day … Read more
Under Pressure or Retail is Tough Post railway reconstruction and our passing trade is still way down, the Aldi site is still a closed petrol station surrounded by barb wire and cyclone fencing and the community bank proposal is still a proposal. The council beautification is going to take time, nothing set in concrete there either … Read more
Offending a book lover’s ol factory can be costly.
It is easy to draw parallels between the experiences of the music publishing industry and the book publishing industry and assume that everyone will be reading in e format sometime in the not too distant future and the printed book will die a natural death. But books are both a visual and tactile experience that … Read more
I went to the New York Comic Convention this past weekend. In between wandering the show floor, meeting authors, artists, and book store owners who had booths there I decided to take in a couple of panels on the state of the comic industry. While the comic industry is slightly different from the book industry, … Read more
They said the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, Well I am neither man nor mouse but my New Zealand trip was not quite what I had planned. I was going to go to Christchurch and tour the South Island but didn’t think that Christchurch would be an ideal spot for a … Read more
