Meanland – The Evolution of the Bookshop

Where

When

Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011, 06:15pm - 07:15pm

Event Status

Past event

In partnership with Meanjin and Overland, we continue this series in 2011. With Amazon.com, ebooks and print-on-demand, are we seeing the end of the traditional bookstore? In the first Meanland event for 2011, a panel of retailers, e-traders and industry insiders discuss how book selling is changing and what that evolution means for readers, writers and literature.

Featuring

Jo Case

Michael Webster

Sally Heath

Corrie Perkin

Featuring

Jo Case

Jo Case is the Program Manager at Melbourne Writers Festival. Before this, she was the Wheeler Centre’s senior writer/editor. Her first book, Boomer and Me: A memoir of motherhood, and Asperger’s is published by Hardie Grant in Australia and the UK. She has been books editor of The Big Issue, as... Read more

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Michael Webster

Michael Webster is a senior lecturer in publishing at RMIT and principal consultant, Nielsen BookScan.

Sally Heath

Sally Heath is editor of Meanjin and a former Fairfax journalist.

Corrie Perkin

Corrie Perkin is a books advocate, editor, award-winning journalist, podcaster, interviewer, events host and communications advisor. For 12 years she owned a bookshop in Melbourne and continues her mission of bringing writers and readers together via her media projects. Since 2017, Corrie has served... Read more