The return of print : contemporary Australian publishing / edited by Aaron Mannion and Emmett Stinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mannion, Aaron, editor.

Stinson, Emmett, editor.

Series:

Monash Publishing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This collection of essays by established and emergingscholars of Australian publishing examines the industry in the wake of both theGlobal Financial Crisis of 2008 and the various shocks and upheavals associatedwith the rise of ebooks. The authors here look beyond the digital, so prominentin many considerations of contemporary publishing, to questions of the book asa material artefact. As consumer trends increasingly suggest print will remainthe central medium for the global publishing industry, it is asked if the messystate of affairs existing now, 'after' the digital revolution, can be describedas 'post-digital'. With reference to a range of cultural, economic andtechnological issues, these essays examine how publishers are leveraging thepossibilities afforded by multiple modes of dissemination.

Contents:

Post-digital publishing: an introduction / Emmett Stinson and Aaron Mannion

General fiction, genre fiction and literary fiction publishing 2000-13 / David Carter

Bookish girls: gender and leadership in Australian trade publishing / Sarah Couper

The changing literary ecology / Mark Davis - Women, akubras and Ereaders: romance fiction and Australian publishing / Beth Driscoll, Lisa Fletcher and Kim Wilkins

Deckchairs and life rafts: Australian trade publishing's perfect storm / Tracy O'Shaughnessy - How to read a big book: the critical reception of Hannah Kent's Burial rites in the context of contemporary trade book marketing / Crittic Watch

Small publishers and the Miles Franklin Award / Emmett Stinson

The transition to book: problems of narrative structure in journalists' manuscripts / Sybil Nolan

Coming out: reframing the public face of publishing / Anne Richards.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-925495-31-0

1-925495-30-2