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I spoke recently at the Australian Booksellers Association Conference in Sydney on blogging and social reading and have been meaning to share my presentation more widely ever since. Below is an outline of my tips for booksellers on writing blog posts. You can check out my social reading presentation (think Readmill, GoodReads etc) on Prezi [...]

I can’t pretend to be unbiased when it comes to longform journalism ebooks (see previous post on Fairfax Media’s move into ebook publishing). I’m a journalist who always writes more than she needs to (and feels frustrated at the waste when precious sentences, and even entire interviews forming part of a feature, are cut to [...]

I so wanted to love the Kobo Vox, but it hasn’t quite won me over. As a colour ereading device, it’s got a lot going for it. The market is, I reckon, ripe for a 7″ colour ereader like the Kindle Fire, which is not available here in Australia, or the occasionally rumoured iPad Nano, [...]

Drop by @booksquare and check out the number of Twitter followers US book industry blogger and digital publishing consultant Kassia Kroszer has. More than 90,000 when I last checked. Wow. Though perhaps it’s not so surprising given she has been writing about the impact of the digital revolution on the book industry since 1998, and [...]