Australia’s bookshops are in trouble, and that’s bad news for readers. But there are ideas we could borrow from Europe to help make our bookshops healthy again.
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A visit to a campus bookstore reveals layers of history about Nigeria.
Reading rates in Australia are falling – and price might be less of a factor than we think. We look at how Australia compares internationally, and what other countries are doing to boost reading.
Booktopia made up 54.7% of Australia’s online bookselling market. Its sale to digiDirect is good news for Australian readers, writers and publishers.
While most booksellers are driven by their love of books, Booktopia was a business opportunity. At its height, it sold a book every three seconds. How did it fail?
The owner of Robinsons Bookshop has listed several kinds of books ‘missing’ from its shelves, including ‘kids picture books with just white kids on the cover’.
From Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, to The Door-to-Door Bookstore, a variety of new novels present bookselling as a source of solace, meaning and escape. What’s going on here?
UK retailers had a happier Christmas than expected, but consumers are changing how they shop due to the rising cost of living.
Pre-pandemic, reading rates among teenagers were falling. But BookTok, a subculture of social media platform TikTok, has made teens read more often – and influences what they read. Here’s how it works.
Traditional publishing needs to be more open to new voices.
With hundreds of book covers displaying previously taboo swear words, are publishers losing the ability to shock readers?
Independent booksellers are increasingly seeing their role as, necessarily, an active, educative, political one.
Using web data it’s possible to work out which bookstores are the world’s ‘most loved’.
The nature of reading books is changing: the closure of traditional bookstores indicates that paper book sales are in decline. It is easy to feel as though this will discourage children from engaging with…
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Professor of Publishing and Audience Studies, Edith Cowan University
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Research Fellow, Pathways to Teenage Reading, Deakin University
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Phd Candidate, Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology
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Sessional Academic, Children's Literature and Creative Writing, Victoria University
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW ; University of Technology Sydney
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Sessional Tutor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing & Publishing, RMIT University
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School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Senior Tutor in Publishing & Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Publishing, The University of Melbourne