Hardcover News
Fanged Rabbits Invade Kingzone
Friday September 17, 1993
STEPHEN King's novels sell around 70,000 copies in Australia (in hardcover, of course; paperbacks do much better). King's closest rivals, Dean R. Koontz and Clive Barker, also sell extremely well, so at an ultra-conservative guess the Australian public gulps down around 2 million horror fictionReal Life Or New Age, Readers Are Buying It
Monday September 6, 1993
Australians are reading more biographies, more self-help books, and more local writers, according to booksellers. And despite the recession people are still buying books, although they usually wait for the paperback rather than pay $40 for the hardcover. The official bookseller for the Melbourne