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round the capital cities such as sydney melbourne and perth in queensland this figure is only 45 quick publishing industry lesson similar to london and new york australia s publishing industry is concentrated in one major city sydney at least that s how it is for the major trade publishers the big six harpercollins hachette australia pan macmillan random house allen and unwin and penguin by extension that s also where most of the literary agents are but here s something interesting some of the most innovative and energetic publishing in australia is taking place outside of sydney and outside of traditional industry networks at the mid size level of the industry a swag of publishers are really performing above and beyond what might be expected for their size particularly uqp brisbane scribe and text melbourne and fremantle press western australia melbourne is also the locus of a vibrant exploding small press scene with small independents flourishing in every other state such as small change press ticonderoga wakefield press eatbooks and pulp fiction press there are any number of conclusions you could draw from this spread of the publishing map for publishers i would suggest that it doesn t matter if you are located close to the hub of industry activity or not there are now few if any barriers to publishing damn fine books wherever you are jess haberman offers good arguments for not being based in the city at all adopting a friendlier small town lifestyle which is likely more supportive of small businesses but more than this i wonder if the evidence in australia demonstrates you re actually better off not being situated in the swirling vortex of the publishing industry at all if the publishers listed above are anything to go by perhaps the distance lends some kind of perspective or inspiration for excellence and new innovation for writers i think isolation is a tough burden and geographical isolation in australia can be acute especially in queensland writers don t need to be physically close to agents and publishers to sell a book nor do they need to be physically close to other writers to participate in vibrant social networks they just need a reliable internet connection that s a whole other story but i ve seen the lightbulbs go on over authors heads when they attend a seminar or panel with publishers and agents and hear directly from industry professionals how the business works i ve seen the spark of new connections and relationships i wonder if the mushrooming of small publishers in regional towns across australia could in turn further support the development of writers in those communities what are your thoughts i m keen to hear from publishers and regional readers on this one note here s some bonus material on the australian tourism debacle that inspired the title of this post how do you pitch digital 12 september 2008 in authors publishing writing tags authors digital publishing getting published 5 comments there are pretty tried and true methods of getting a publisher to look at your book manuscript there are only so many pathways you write a manuscript and either take your chances in the slush find yourself an agent or more rarely leverage a contact or referral that gets your manuscript in front of someone who can do something with it regardless of which pathway you find yourself on the method of presentation doesn t change much a pitch or synopsis and some sample chapters for a novel a proposal or outline for non fiction what about digital if you re a savvy author with a great pitch for a digital publishing project how do you talk to a publisher about it who s even listening can innovative digital projects only be conceived and driven by publishers or specialist companies like 4th story media which is doing the amanda project or are publishers interested in hearing ideas from authors themselves quite a few authors i talk to these days are already thinking ahead to digital channels as they develop their manuscripts for some this is marketing oriented and they make plans for promoting the book in various online platforms but for others their story is digital native and the online channels are integral to the telling of the narrative we need new protocols that assist authors to start the conversation with foreward thinking publishers who are interested in input from all kinds of places crack yer spine 12 september 2008 in author promotion general tags authors books penguin uk publishing spinebreakers ya fiction 1 comment i was sure that i wrote a blog post about penguin uk s spinebreakers website when it was launched but a quick search of the archives reveals i only dreamed i did nevertheless i ve been meaning to write another first post for a while the site has been operating for more than a year now and it has really grown into the lively online space for young readers that it always promised to be here s what i love and admire about spinebreakers it s an online book community for teenagers run by teenagers the editorial team is aged between 13 and 18 years and clearly changes and refreshes regularly i ve seen at least one call out for new contributors and editors since i ve been following the site spinebreakers welcomes your content instead of just talking at you about books the site is chock full of opportunities to contribute content whether it be writing book reviews submitting video poems making book trailers or writing an alternative chapter for your favourite book the editorial team are fantastic curators this not a my space style social network not that there s anything wrong with that but we have plenty of them already the spinebreakers crew of more than 30 teenagers keep up a constant stream of quality author interviews writing tips book info short stories and yes commentary i have the rss feed in google reader and would probably get more than a dozen items a day from spinebreakers it s fresh spinebeakers is an experience not just a website the best part of all except for me living in australia is that spinebreakers have branched out into live events such as author talks and writing workshops the first spinebreakers live on july 25th was a muster of more than 50 teenagers who worked with mentors on film creation music production and creative writing as i so often do these days i found myself whingeing they didn t have anything that cool when i was a teenager i wrote a while back about deep niches and the potential for publisher driven sites to realise the value of vertical channels spinebreakers along with the new tor com website are examples of exciting initiatives in this direction of course i can t know if or how spinebreakers has impacted on penguin s book sales of ya fiction but i do know they have attracted a loyal and active audience including me a unified field theory of publishing in the networked era 9 september 2008 in authors business models general publishing social media writing tags authors bob stein if book institute for the future of the book new media publishing leave a comment bob stein has published a brilliant piece over at if book about the paradigm of the book in a networked world and the role authors readers editors publishers can play in generating and curating book content i place those quotation marks deliberately because stein interrogates the notion of the book as artefact whether print or multimedia and discusses how this concept has changed as we ve evolved into a networked society image gavinbell reading and writing have always been social activities but that fact tends to be obscured by the medium of print we grew up with images of the solitary reader curled up in a chair or under a tree and the writer alone in his garret the most important thing my colleagues and i have learned during our experiments with networked books over the past few years is that as discourse moves off the page onto the network the social aspects are revealed in sometimes startling clarity these exchanges move from background to foreground a transition that has dramatic implications this is essential reading but bob is also encouraging comments and discussion link to article a unified field theory of publishing in the networked era by bob stein visit the institute for the future of the book how to get published 4 september 2008 in general tags authors publishing 3 comments my apologies to all the eager people who found this post because they plugged how to get published into a search engine hopefully this can be regarded as a community service announcement 3 thoughts inspired by martyn daniels 3 3 september 2008 in authors business models publishing tags authors digital publishing ebooks martyn daniels publishers 2 comments the third thought is about rights yep that old nugget again if i sound like i m harping on this topic it s because i m coming at these issues mostly from an author s perspective and the rights are the basic unit of tradable property from which authors incomes derive the current rights debates do not stop publishers digitising their processes they merely stop them being able to realise all the possible opportunities however at a time when the digital market is not established for many this may be a huge leap into the dark link to martyn s original post the point about realising the opportunities is the key for authors here has it occurred to publishers that the ability to digitise in order to realise commercial opportunities is one of the services they have to offer authors who retain digital rights if publishers move toward fully digitising their pre press processes as daniels suggests and can create format neutral content then they could sell these formats back to authors as a service when put next to their ability to provide marketing and branding oomph to the author as brand it reinforces the idea that publishers as intermediaries between author and reader could be reconfigured to be author oriented services companies rather than content producers genesis of an australian digital publishing taskforce 28 august 2008 in authors e books publishing tags australia council authors booksellers copyright agency limited digital publishing ebooks publishers leave a comment so yesterday i attended a meeting in melbourne of various industry types to discuss the need for benefits of an australian industry led taskforce for digital publishing it was interesting first up it s worth noting the breakdown of attendees the meeting was jointly hosted by the federal government arts agency australia council for the arts ozco and copyright agency limited cal which for our international readers is the australian collecting organisation for copyright licence fees prior to this meeting they had jointly funded research into australian publishers attitudes and perceived information needs in relation to digital publishing unfortunately i haven t been able to find this report published online yet i hope it will be at least included in ozco s new online research hub which is being released soon of the 17 people who were there ozco and cal were more than 30 of the group the next biggest group was publishers with four publishers plus the head of the australian publishers association the spread of publishers was really good there was one large trade publisher macmillan plus three independents spinifex mup and sleepers with zoe from sleepers also representing the small press underground collective spunc from retail there was an independent bookseller a representative of the australian campus booksellers association and the ceo of the australian booksellers association bringing up the rear were authors with just myself and a representative of the australian society of authors i was not initially invited to this meeting but requested to be included when i read about it in weekly book newsletter i found this distribution particularly odd after the director of the literature board of the australia council had declared that she sees this as the writing industry not the publishing or book industry and that everything stems from the writing one would perhaps have expected to see more writers in the room notable absences were libraries and at least one representative of the australian literary agents association i m unsure if that s because they weren t invited or were unable to attend okay so now you ve met the players in our little drama here s how it unfolded ross mccall from cal outlined the background to the meeting and an ozco representative gave a summary of the desktop research they d done into the digital publishing scene so far we then broke into groups to discuss the opportunities threats and questions of setting up an industry led taskforce to support and drive knowledge transfer new digital publishing initiatives and collective efforts to fund innovation the discussion was robust and i think there was a healthy level of honesty in the room but that left me feeling a little depressed also because some of the honesty delivered aloud was an observation of the lack of trust and openness in the australian publishing industry everyone agreed that digital is huge and most publishers seem to be tackling it on their own terms which i felt kind of missed the point of us all being in a room together the booksellers seemed a bit down about the prospects for their part of the supply chain and i sense i made a thorough nuisance of myself by being bolshie on behalf of authors one of the best points was made when it was noted there is little if any collaboration or discussion between publishing industry organisations and other digital media companies such as games developers telcos and mobile content publishers overall i think we got to a positive endpoint which was an agreement that there is scope for more cooperation at a national industry level and that the next step is to have a blue sky discussion about what s possible and desirable before narrowing down to what we re committed to achieving there s a ways to go but for a first meeting i m optimistic we could eventually achieve something relevant and meaningful do i have any concerns yes i am a little worried about an entrenched culture of everyone in their foxholes undermining the process and i was guilty of this too i boldly claimed that publishers aren t talking to authors about what they re doing with digital and was roundly disabused of this notion by the publishers in the room yet my scepticism remains because while publishers may be having these discussions on an individual basis with authors especially when it comes time to negotiate rights and contracts i don t believe there is a general awareness among australian writers about the digital innovations publishers are planning that could be a problem for publishers long term in a number of ways first it makes it harder for authors to get excited about assigning their digital rights because they don t have information about the creative ways publishers may want to commercialise them i think publisher...