Book Launch: The Return of Print?

Will print remain the central medium for the global publishing industry? Are we in a post‑digital era? How are Australian publishers leveraging the possibilities of multiple modes of dissemination?

Following on immediately from the Industry Research Day, the Independent Publishing Conference is proud to present the launch of new book from Monash University Publishing The Return of Print?.

Edited by SPN Deputy Chair Aaron Mannion and original instigator of the Conference Emmett Stinson, The Return of Print? is a collection of essays that explores the Australian publishing industry in the wake of various economic and technological upheavals, looking beyond the digital to questions of the book as a material artefact.

Open to the public, free entry, nibbles and a cash bar. Get your copy signed!

Launched by book critic and academic Melinda Harvey, Director of the Centre for the Book and the Monash Liaison for the Melbourne Writers Festival and the Emerging Writers’ Festival.

About the Editors

Aaron Mannion is associate publisher at Vignette Press, fiction editor at Antic, deputy chair of the Small Press Network and co-convener of the Independent Publishing Conference’s academic day. Aaron read English Literature at the University of Cambridge and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne. He has been shortlisted for the Wet Ink Short Story Prize and for the Penguin Manuscript Award twice.

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 contemporary Australian publishing, focusing on small publishers and literary publishing. He also researches Modernist literature with a focus on aesthetic autonomy and satire. His collection of short stories, Known Unknowns (Affirm Press, 2010), was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.

Contributors

David Carter, Sarah Couper, Mark Davis, Beth Driscoll, Ben Etheringtson, Lisa Fletcher, Sybil Nolan, Tracy O’Shaughnessy, Anne Richards, Emmett Stinson, and Kim Wilkins