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A recent flurry of tweets about cultural appropriation from members of the Canadian media elite show their ignorance the publishing industry remains overwhelming white
Newspapers may be in crisis but magazines are thriving. The growth is in specialist titles - indeed the glossy offerings of Coles and Woolworths now have almost double the readership of the Australian Women’s Weekly,
Independent booksellers are increasingly seeing their role as, necessarily, an active, educative, political one.
Given Pullman’s trenchant critique of despotism, his new trilogy will certainly be read allegorically.
Glossy magazines have a serious role to play.
Everything you need to know about predatory publishers.
The copyright wars are set to continue, with the government releasing a Productivity Commission report arguing for a relaxation of intellectual property laws.
Bedtime stories can be comforting, chilling and mysterious, but new research highlights how emotions change depending on how children are doing it.
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.
Richard Neville was a man of his times: a smart-alec student in the 60s; a drug-smoking hippie on trial in the 70s; to a family man, writer and public speaker in the 80s and 90s.
There is mounting evidence to show scientists and researchers why public engagement is worth their while.
Five years ago, the death knell was sounded for the bookshop. But the paper book, which offers hours of deliciously deep, screen-free reading, has not gone the way of Kodachrome. In fact, bookstores are staging a minor comeback.
Experts once thought that young adult literature was doomed. Now it’s got some of the fastest-growing sales in publishing. What changed? Social media might be the key.
Books contain ideas. They enable minds to shine. Our publishing industry is under pressure on many fronts – yet cultural matters seem of little significance to the federal government.
An open access textbook model is gaining traction in the US and Australia and shaking up the publishing industry.
The perception of publishing as a business, even a creative one, means that the question of book sales dominates our conversations about it. But publishing offers far more to our culture than that.
Wikipedia is celebrating its 15th birthday, but it’s eight years since contributor numbers peaked. What does this tell us about its future?
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.
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Faculty Research Manager, Macquarie University
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Lecturer, Publishing, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania
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Sessional lecturer in the Master of Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Publishing, University of Pretoria
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