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'Michael Webster has had a long and distinguished career in the publishing industry, and is the recipient of the George Robertson Award for Services to the Book Industry. He's been a publisher, academic, board member of the Melbourne Writers Festival and The Copyright Agency, and perhaps most importantly for today's chat, introduced Book Track (now Nielsen Book Scan) into the Australasian Marketplace. It revolutionised the electronic data collection and analysis of book sales. If you want to know what's selling or what isn't, he is the person to ask.' (Introduction)
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- Michael discusses the standout Australian bestseller, The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape. In terms of fiction, he mentions Australian authors Jane Harper, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, and Liane Moriarty (who sells large numbers globally). J. K. Rowling and Jamie Oliver also have huge sales in Australia.
- Michael thinks all writers should attend the Small Press Network annual conference and explore Lightning Source (a book printing service).
- Michael mentions Readings, Paperback Bookshop and Avenue Bookstore we examples of independent booksellers in Australia that have perfected the art of hand selling.
- Finally, Michael refers to Educational Lending Rights (ELR) and Publishing Lending Rights (PLR). If you don’t know what they are, check out The Copyright Agency’s summary.
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