The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing(Monash Publishing Series)

This collection of essays by established and emerging scholars of Australian publishing examines the industry in the wake of both the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the various shocks and upheavals associated with the rise of ebooks. The authors here look beyond the digital, so prominent in many considerations of contemporary publishing, to questions of the book as a material artefact. As consumer trends increasingly suggest print will remain the central medium for the global publishing industry, it is asked if the messy state of affairs existing now, after the digital revolution, can be described as ‘post-digital’. With reference to a range of cultural, economic and technological issues, these essays examine how publishers are leveraging the possibilities afforded by multiple modes of dissemination.

About the Author :
Aaron Mannion is associate publisher at Vignette Press. He has edited and co-edited a range of publications, including the post­graduate magazine Plane Tree, the creative writing anthologies Muse and Nth Degree, the reviews section of the peer-reviewed journal Traffic and Vignette Press’s Geek Mook. He is currently fiction editor at Antic. Aaron read English Literature at the University of Cambridge and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne. He is deputy chair of the Small Press Network and co-convener of the Independent Publishing Conference’s academic day. His work has been published in Wet Ink, The Sleepers Almanac, Island and elsewhere. He’s been shortlisted for the 2011 Wet Ink Short Story Prize and for the Penguin Manuscript Award in 2009 and 2011. Emmett Stinson is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle and was previously a Lecturer in Publishing and Com­munications at the University of Melbourne. He researches on contemporary Australian publishing, focusing on small publishers and literary publishing. His col­lection of short stories, Known Unknowns (Affirm Press, 2010), was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. His monograph, Satirizing Modernism: Romanticism, Aesthetic Autonomy, and the Avant-Garde is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2017.