Bibliodiversity : a manifesto for independent publishing / Susan Hawthorne ; editors, Renate Klein and Pauline Hopkins ; cover design, Deb Snibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Susan, author.

Contributor:

Klein, Renate, editor.

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth), editor.

Snibson, Deb, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing.

Corporations--Publishing.

Corporations.

Private presses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

North Melbourne, Victoria : Spinifex, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries. It means that books which take off slowly but have long lives, the books that change social norms, are less likely to be published. Independent publishers are seeking another way. A way of engagement with society and methods that reflect something important about the locale or the niche they inhabit. Independent and small publishers are like rare plants that pop up among the larger growth but add something different, perhaps they feed the soil, bring colour or scent into the world. Bibliodiversity is a term invented by Chilean publishers in the 1990s as a way of envisioning a different kind of publishing. In this manifesto, Susan Hawthorne provides a scathing critique of the global publishing industry set against a visionary proposal for organic publishing. She looks at free speech and fair speech, at the environmental costs of mainstream publishing and at the promises and challenges of the move to digital.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Bibliodiversity

Chapter 2. One size fits all

Chapter 3. The soil

Chapter 4. Multiversity

Chapter 5. Production

Chapter 6. Feminism

Chapter 7. Pornography

Chapter 8. Free trade and free speech

Chapter 9. Fair trade and fair speech

Chapter 10. Recolonisation

Chapter 11. Digital bibliodiversity

Chapter 12. Organic publishing

Chapter 13. Principles of bibliodiversity: Patterns and processes

Chapter 14. Bibliodiversity in the twenty-first century

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Other Books from Spinifex Press.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 1, 2014).

ISBN:

9781742199252

1742199259

OCLC:

893678394