Don’t be fooled by the ‘indie’ rhetoric surrounding the new imprint of Penguin Random House Canada, a multinational corporation. Only time will tell if it will do much for the diversification of Can-Lit.
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How do we advance Australia? Grab your tickets to hear Australia’s top experts answer just that.
The strange story of the author one of 2018’s bestselling novels reveals a lot about some careers at the top end of publishing.
The best translated fiction available in English.
Despite dire predictions, bookstores are doing well: they are curators of taste and community hubs. But their challenges are many – from the arrival of Amazon Down Under to a ‘post-truth’ climate that devalues knowledge.
Reports of the decline of the eBook are premature. The publishing industry is changing rapidly and data that appears robust tells us less than it once did.
The copyright wars are set to continue, with the government releasing a Productivity Commission report arguing for a relaxation of intellectual property laws.
If the government decides to remove regional trade protections on the book industry, it should compensate Australian authors. But given how unlikely new funding would be, the best option – for everyone – is to leave well enough alone.
The #bookstagram hashtag on Instagram is changing the way the world looks at reading.
The uniquely Australian literary voice is worth protecting, but parallel importation restrictions are not the way to do it. Rather, we should lift those restrictions – and subsidise Australian booksellers directly.
A study into the responses of Australian authors, publishers and readers to global changes in the contemporary publishing environment suggests authors are being innovative, but financial rewards can be elusive.
J R R Tolkien died over 40 years ago and since then there have been over 30 titles bearing his name. Is this warranted?
The company is hardly the evil megalomaniac that many have depicted: it’s actually been very good for the book industry.
Recently on The Conversation, I described a remarkable moment of language experimentation highlighted by recent Australian poetry prizes. Panning out to a wider view of contemporary Australian poetry…
An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired. Some 90% of those live in developing nations, where less than 1% of the world’s books are available in a form they can read. In developed…
Staring at a blank page is daunting. Where to make the first mark? As designers have known for centuries, one way is to start with a grid. A grid is a structure of lines used by designers to help organise…
Do you remember how people used to walk about with ghetto blasters, so you could hardly escape the high-volume throb of some visceral drumbeat? Being alive now is like having your head permanently wedged…
E-readers have been a regular sight on public transport for years now but until recently, little has been known about the impact they are having on the publishing industry and readers alike. For the first…
There is an old saying that anxiety is the enemy of concentration. One of the best pieces of sports journalism I ever read was by Gene Tunney, world heavyweight champion of the 1920s, writing about how…
The cultural transformation brought about by digital convergence and networked communication has been dizzying, and, for many, disorienting. None of the old certainties – political, corporate, economic…
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Deputy CIO; Member of English Faculty; Member of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Professor of Media, Macquarie University
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor in Publishing and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Writing, Deputy Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of HASS, The University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of English and New Media, Bournemouth University
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Research Fellow, Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
