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And with thanks to Chair’s Welcome I’d like to welcome you to the 2018 Independent Publishing Conference, the Small Press Network’s annual signature event and the must-attend forum for publishing professionals, researchers and those entering the industry.

This year’s program is focused on issues that have engaged the trade through the year – some controversial, most practice-based, all presented by industry professionals whose time and contribution is much appreciated, as is the organisation undertaken by SPN’s board, staff, contractors and volunteer academics and associates. Putting the conference together has been a collective effort by individuals with a shared interest in publishing and the issues facing it. I appreciate the efforts of all of them.

In addition to the contribution by individuals, I’d also like to acknowledge the continued support of SPN and the annual conference by the broader book industry itself. We would not be here today without the support of Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, our major funder, as well as The Australia Council, Swinburne and Melbourne universities, Thorpe-Bowker, Ligare/Optus, Ingram, Melbourne City of Literature and the Australian Booksellers Association. My thanks to them all for their ongoing support.

At the end of the conference I’d welcome your feedback and any suggestions you feel might improve next year’s program. In the meantime, please enjoy the next three days.

Michael Webster, SPN chair

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Who will win the 2018 Most Underrated Book Award?

Join us for an evening celebrating the 2018 shortlist and discover which book will be named the 2018 winner.

The shortlist · Gwen by Goldie Goldbloom (Fremantle Press) · Living in Hope by the late Frank Byrne with Frances Coughlan & Gerard Waterford (Ptilotus Press) · Plane Tree Drive by Lynette Washington (Midnight Sun Publishing)

The event

Thursday 22 November 2018 6.15pm The Wheeler Centre

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8:15 Arrival, registration, coffee, tea am

8:45 Welcome and acknowledgement of country am Millicent Weber and Alexandra Dane

9:00 DISRUPTING EXPECTATIONS am Emmett Stinson (Deakin University) ‘Self-publishing highbrow literature’ Alexandra Dane (University of Melbourne) ‘The politics of eligibility and the laws of literary prizes’ Beth Driscoll (University of Melbourne) ‘Actions and reactions at the cardboard Frankfurt Buchmesse’

SLV CONFERENCE SPACE 9:30 | OPEN YOUR EYES TRAINING Please note, this special training session runs from 9:30am to 1pm in the State Library of Victoria Conference Space. Convenor: Jax Jacki Brown Presented in partnership with Writers Victoria and Arts Access Victoria Writers Victoria and Arts Access Victoria are thrilled to offer disability awareness training tailored specifically to the publishing industry at the heavily subsidised rate of $25 (over 80% discount). The training will cover: • Best practice language • The Social Model of Disability • Barriers to participation and how the arts can ‘open doors’ • Knowing your organisation’s legal obligations • The creative case for inclusion, beyond compliance Our facilitators are artists with disability, skilled at using their creative talents to illuminate complex issues around access and inclusion. This training will equip you with the skills and tools to engage confidently with people with disability to create environments of equality and authentic representation. Spaces are limited so booking is essential. Contact [email protected] This training is supported by The State Library of Victoria.

10:30 am Morning tea Industry Research Day Industry 22 NovemberThursday Workshop Space

PUBLISHERS’ OBLIGATIONS 9:00 Alexandra Payne (University of Queensland Press; Queensland am University of Technology) ‘The lawlessness of publishers’ Sybil Nolan (University of Melbourne) ‘The culture of the institution influencing the Grattan Street Press list’ Sophie Masson (University of New England) ‘Signing on the dotted line: the lived experience of publishing contracts’ Performance Space

11:00 PUBLISHING AND POLICY am Andy Fuller and Nuraini Juliastuti (Reading Sideways Press) ‘Reframing Indonesian-Australian cultural policy through publishing’

Per Henningsgaard (Curtin University) ‘The conventions of the research that informs Australian cultural policy about writing and publishing’

Jo Ritale (State Library of Victoria) and Libby Cass (National Library of Australia) ‘Legal deposit in the 21st century’

12:45 pm Break

1:30 Keynote Address pm #NOTALLPUBLISHERS – THE CASE FOR RETHINKING AUTHOR CONTRACTS Rebecca Giblin (Monash University)

2:30 ROUNDTABLE: TEACHING PUBLISHING; TEACHING PRESSES pm Per Henningsgaard (Curtin University) Tracy O’Shaughnessy (RMIT University) Sybil Nolan (University of Melbourne) Meg Vann (University of Queensland)

3:30 pm Afternoon tea Industry Research Day Industry 22 NovemberThursday Workshop Space

11:00 DIGITAL AND POST-DIGITAL PUBLISHING am Mark Davis (University of Melbourne) ‘Data as law: literary tastemaking and the case of Amazon’

Claire Parnell (University of Melbourne) ‘User-generated writing platforms in the post-digital publishing ecosystem’

Millie Weber (Australian National University) ‘Regulating literary engagement online’ Performance Space

4:00 PUBLISHING PRACTICE pm Jan Zwar (Macquarie University) ‘Key findings from a three-year study on the contemporary Australian book industry: Authors, publishers and readers in a time of change’

Laurel Cohn (University of Queensland) ‘Education or entertainment? Effect and intent in books for the young’

Jodi McAlister (Deakin University) ‘Not quite YA, not yet adult: The short but complex history of “New Adult” fiction’

5:30 pm Thanks and close Industry Research Day Industry 22 NovemberThursday Workshop Space

4:00 COPYRIGHT IN CONTEXT pm Jocelyn Hargrave (University of Melbourne) ‘Likely bedfellows? The NSW Government Printing Office and the Copyright Act 1879’

Katherine Day (RMIT) ‘Fair’s fair (except when it isn’t)’

LJ Maher (University of Melbourne) ‘You know nothing: Convergence, remix, transmedia and Australian copyright’ Performance Space

8:30 am Arrival, registration, coffee, tea

8:45 Welcome: Michael Webster (SPN) am WELCOME TO COUNTRY: Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin

9:00 SALES TRENDS REPORT am Bianca Whiteley (Nielsen BookScan), Michael Webster (chair) Nielsen BookScan tracks Australian book sales throughout the market. Hear about this year’s best-performing categories and get the most up-to-date analysis in children’s, nonfiction and fiction sales.

10:00 AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHING: SWOT ANALYSIS am Rosanna Arciuli (Copyright Agency), Michael Gordon-Smith (APA), Sophie Masson (Small Press Network), Yvette Holt (FNAWN), Juliet Rogers (ASA), Jackie Tang (chair) Our panellists identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for Australian publishers.

10:30 am Morning tea Trade Day 23 November Friday Workshop Space

9:00 POETRY am Ellen van Neerven, Kent MacCarter (Cordite), Yvette Holt (chair) With thanks to Australian Poetry, join poets and publishing professionals Ellen van Neerven, Kent MacCarter and Yvette Holt to explore the recent increase in publication of collections by First Nations writers; reception of and demand for these locally and internationally; and best practice in acquiring and editing these works. This is a free event, but booking is required.

10:00 SPECULATIVE FICTION am Rose Michael (RMIT), Sam Cooney (Brow Books), Angela Meyer (Echo Publishing), Joel Martin (chair) Clare Coleman’s Terra Nullius (Hachette) was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, Jane Rawson’s From the Wreck (Transit Lounge) was longlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin and Voss Literary Prize, and Brow Books has had much critical acclaim for The Island Will Sink (Briohny Doyle) and The Town (Shaun Prescott). So, is speculative fiction … going mainstream? Performance Space

10:45 KEYNOTE am Danika Isdahl (Sarabande Books) Danika Isdahl is appearing at the Independent Publishing Program with the support of the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office.

11:45 FINDING THE WRITERS am Rebecca Lim (Voices from the Intersection), Sophie Black (The Next Chapter), Michael Mohammed Ahmad (Sweatshop), Hella Ibrahim (chair) From philanthropic development, to volunteer initiative to community NGO, meet the non-publishers who are helping the industry discover and develop new voices.

12:30 BEST PRACTICE pm Robert Watkins (Hachette), Karen Tayleur (Garratt Publishing), Jonathan Seifman (Booktopia), Caitlin Yates (chair) Does your next junior hire really need a university degree? Does the industry’s growing reliance on freelancers present an opportunity to diversify our lists? Could your team be more productive working fewer hours? And what software out there is going to help you bring it all together?

1:15 pm Lunch break Trade Day 23 November Friday Workshop Space

11:45 FICTION am Rachel Bin Salleh (Magabala), Jax Jacki Brown (Publishability, Writers Vic), Danika Isdahl (Sarabande Books), Kate Cuthbert (chair) Book fair attendees agree that Own Voices are in demand. Our panel discuss developments so far, how a publisher can ‘get it right’ and the debated role of authenticity readers in developing diverse casts of characters.

12:30 CHILDREN’S pm Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke (Berbay), Rebecca Lim (Voices from the Intersection), Leesa Lambert (The Little Bookroom), Clair Hume (Affirm kids), Melissa Keil (chair) Thinking of starting a children’s list? Affirm Press did and they survived to tell the tale. Hear all about it, as well as news from the coal face of children’s bookselling, developments in Own Voice children’s publishing – and catch up on the latest trends from Bologna and Shanghai, as reported by award-winning children’s book publisher Berbay.

1:15 SMALL PRESS NETWORK AGM LUNCH pm This session is open to Small Press Network members only. Light refreshments provided.

1:30 pm Lunch break Performance Space

2:30 INTERNATIONAL TRENDS pm Khadija Caffoor (Text Publshing), Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke (Berbay), Alex Adsett (chair) Get up to speed on the world of rights: trends at Frankfurt, who wants Australian titles, what the next big thing is, the genre everyone has had enough of – as well as trends and impressions from Bologna and Shanghai.

3:15 PUBLISHING’S #METOO MOMENT? pm Alexandra Dane (University of Melbourne), Beth Driscoll (University of Melbourne), Kirsty Wilson (chair) In a recent Books+Publishing survey of Australian book industry professionals, more than half of respondents reported they had experienced sexual harassment, with those in marketing and publicity being most likely to have experienced harassment. Our panel discusses the vulnerability of publicists responsible for ‘author care’ – and the wider industry’s view of these roles.

4:00 pm Afternoon tea Trade Day 23 November Friday Workshop Space

2:30 AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD pm Nathan Hollier (Monash University Publishing), Stephanie Siriwardene (Scribe Publications), Sam Cooney (Brow Books), Tim Coronel (chair) Hear from Australians who have taken part in fellowships and delegations to Asia, India, the UK and the United States: Nathan Hollier is researching opportunities for and obstacles to book publishing in the Asia Pacific region with a Copyright Agency fellowship; Stephanie Siriwardene has visited India as part of the Australia Council India Exploratory Program; and Sam Cooney’s research trips to the US and UK have informed his thinking on the not-for-profit model as a possible way forward for small press publishing in Australia.

3:15 NONFICTION pm Rachel Bin Salleh (Magabala), Marika Webb-Pullman (Scribe Publications), Nicholas Pullen (HWL Ebsworth Lawyers), Alexandra Payne (chair) Information is money – except when it costs you. Our panel discusses the payoffs (and payouts) of nonfiction; best practice in protecting yourself from legal action or costly recalls; as well as the process of deciding what makes a good nonfiction acquisition, how to market it and what the market is hungry for right now. Performance Space

4:15 REACHING YOUR AUDIENCE pm Glen Jones (Amazon), Pooja Desai (Hardie Grant Egmont), Olivia Fleetwood (Hardie Grant Egmont), Tash Beilsev (chair) Your audience is discovering books online, but where and how these days? What does that mean for your campaign approach, design choices and where you put your marketing resources? Our panellists share their advice on reaching audiences in the digital realm.

5:00 ‘DISTRIBUTION’: DISCUSS pm Glen Jones (Amazon), Jonathan Seifman (Booktopia), Fiona Horman (Regency Media), Tim Coronel (chair) Dennis Jones & Associates represented the titles of many small presses. In the wake of its demise, what are independent publishers’ options for distribution?

5:45 Networking drinks pm

6:15 KEYNOTE IN CONVERSATION: PUBLISHING IN THE AGE OF TRUMP pm Danika Isdahl (Sarabande Books), Per Henningsgaard (Curtin University), Emmett Stinson (chair) Sarabande Books has drawn attention to the role of the US National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in supporting its publishing, and campaigned against the Trump administration’s repeated proposals to reduce this funding. Sarabande’s Danika Isdahl will discuss publishing in Trump’s America with Per Henningsgaard, who has worked at publishing houses in both New York and Portland, and US-born publishing researcher Emmett Stinson. Join them to hear about the role of publishers operating outside of the New York hub, and their survival in the current US political environment.

6:45 pm Close Trade Day 23 November Friday Workshop Space

4:15 AUDIO pm Chiara Priorelli (Wavesound,), Astrid Edwards (The Garret), Joel Martin (the Morning Bell), Meaghan Dew (Kill Your Darlings), Elizabeth Flux (chair) Audiobooks are a fast-growing part of the publishing market and podcasters are the not-so-new bloggers. So, who’s listening? Hear from experts in audio about Australians’ listening habits, what kinds of books and authors make for good pod content and how to get listeners’ attention.

5:00 ALTERNATIVE INCOMES pm Sophie Masson (Christmas Press), Michael Hanrahan (MH Publishing), Danika Isdahl (Sarabande Books), Sam Cooney (chair) Publishers publish books and bookshops sell them. Simple. But that has never been the full story. Hear from a range of publishers about other ways to make a living. From publishing partnerships, to fee-for-service as an income stream, to philanthropy and community events as viable funding options. Performance Space

8:00 am Arrival, registration, coffee, tea

8:15 PUBLISHING TERMS 101 am Michael Webster (SPN) Maybe you know your ISBN from your ISSN, but what about your ONIX, CiP, ELR, PLR, DRM, or DOI? If you’re unsure, join chair of the Small Press Network Michael Webster for a guided tour of the acronyms of publishing, and the terms you will likely hear often during the course of the day ahead.

8:45 WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY am Michael Webster (SPN)

9:00 BUSINESS BASICS am Alex Adsett (Alex Adsett Publishing) Publishing is a business all its own, but it’s still a business. Start with the right advice from publishing consultant and literary agent Alex Adsett.

9:45 RESPONSIBLE PUBLISHING am Rachel Bin Salleh (Magabala Books), Jax Jacki Brown (Publishability, Writers Victoria), Kate Cuthbert (chair) With great publishing comes great responsibility. Our panel takes you through key considerations a good publisher will make before acquiring a work and during the editing process.

10:30 am Morning tea Fundamentals Day Saturday 24 November Workshop Space

FUNDING OPTIONS 9:45 Nicola Evans (Copyright Agency), Wenona Byrne (Australia am Council), Shaun Larkin (Creative Victoria), Karen Andrews (chair) Hear what grants and funding options are available to publishers and authors from the Australia Council, Copyright Agency and Creative Victoria, and get an overview of the arts funding landscape. Performance Space

11:00 GETTING YOUR BOOKS TO BUYERS am Debbie Lee (IngramSpark), Fiona Horman (Regency Media), Leesa Lambert (Neighbourhood Books), Tim Coronel (chair) Choosing a distribution option is an important and often fraught decision for small publishers. Hear about the sector from two distribution experts – and from an expert bookseller – about how to give your titles the best chance once they reach the bookshelf.

11:45 THE RIGHTS STUFF am Anne Beilby (Text Publishing), Catherine Lewis (Wild Dingo Press), Alex Adsett (chair) For many new publishers international rights sales can be an afterthought. But approached as an integral part of your business, they can help take some of the risk out of risk-taking publishing.

12:30 KEYNOTE pm Zoe Dattner (Private Media)

1:00 pm Lunch break Fundamentals Day Saturday 24 November Workshop Space Workshop publishing business. Then take the opportunity the take Then to business. publishing best manage metadata across your can you ask how general Q+A with Garybooks in an audience Pengelly, Thorpe-Bowker. manager of MyIdentifiers provider WORKSHOP: WORKFLOWS PUBLISHING WORKSHOP: Gary Pengelly (RMIT), O’Shaughnessy Tracy (Thorpe-Bowker) 20 years’ An educator and trade with over publisher through you will take O’Shaughnessy Tracy experience, functioning the workflows a smoothly essential to am 11:00 Performance Space

2:00 COVER DESIGN pm Regine Abos (Australian Book Designers Association) Back by popular demand, Regine Abos will guide you through common mistakes to avoid when designing your cover – as well as advice on design in the age of social media.

2:45 BOOK LAUNCH ADVICE pm Chris Gordon (Readings) in conversation with Tim White (Australian Booksellers Association) Firstly, don’t leave it to the last minute. What else do you need to know to pull off a great book launch? Get some advice from the experts.

3:30 pm Afternoon tea Fundamentals Day Saturday 24 November Workshop Space Workshop Print-on-demand, or offset – or both? Print-on-demand, Reaching the retail market – here and beyond and working it to platform, author/publisher Building your the max. The rise and role of the ‘author service provider’ – does ‘author service provider’ The rise and role of the and how? ‘publisher’ from this differ the perfecting pricing to market; Deciding on format; pitch • • • press, there is always something to learn decisions and many there is always press, basis. to be made on a book-by-book The workshop will cover: • • INGRAM WORKSHOP: GOING DIGITAL – THE POD – DIGITAL GOING WORKSHOP: INGRAM ADVANTAGE Lee (Ingram)Debbie Lee will share the wide array Debbie Ingram’s of options open to indie publishers to publication. and the process new to the industry are Whether you or a veteran small pm 2:00 Performance Space

3:45 MARKETING pm Anna Lensky (Pitch Projects), Shalini Kunahlan (Text Publishing), Claire Miller (chair) Strategy, lead times, media contacts, social networks – hear from marketing experts about what you need to do and when.

4:30 GETTING INTO THE LIBRARY pm Patricia Genat (ALIA), Belinda Bolliger (Australian Standing Orders), Rachel Bin Salleh (Magabala Books), Rachael McDiarmid (chair) How do you get your books ordered by public libraries, into book clubs, included by Australian Standing Orders, or onto school curriculums? Our expert panel aren’t making promises but they will give you their best advice.

5:15 WHAT THE SMALL PRESS NETWORK CAN DO FOR YOU pm Tim Coronel (Small Press Network) General manager Tim Coronel will outline the many benefits of SPN membership, from discounted services from providers such as Nielsen, Ingram, Thorpe-Bowker and NetGalley, to the SPN Christmas Catalogue, free prize entry and community support.

5:30 pm Close Fundamentals Day Saturday 24 November Workshop Space Workshop from your author. from your WORKING WITH AUTHORS WORKING George (Ferrous Dunford Digital), Shalini Kunahlan (Text), Leah Jing McIntosh (chair) be partGetting an author to promotion of their own always not publishersis appealing to small it’s – but to get the best guidance on how Get some straightforward. 4:30 pm Presenters

Alex Adsett is a publishing consultant Berbay Publishing – a dedicated children’s and literary agent who offers commercial publishing house located in Melbourne. contract advice to authors and publishers. Berbay publishes original books that are She serves on various boards around as beautiful as they are unique; books that Australia and talks regularly on copyright will inform, delight, charm and challenge and contracts. children with intelligence, ingenuity and fun. In 2017 Berbay Publishing was recognised Alexandra Dane researches contemporary for its editorial choices and won BOP book cultures, focusing on the relationship for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year between gender, literary consecration and (Oceania) in Bologna. the influence of formal and informal literary networks. Andy Fuller is a freelance researcher, writer and editor with interests in Alexandra Payne is a freelance publisher literature, sports and urban culture. He is and editor and has worked in the publishing an Honorary Fellow at the Asia Institute, industry since 1995. From 2007 to 2018 The University of Melbourne. He is a she was the Non-fiction Publisher (Trade) co-founder of Reading Sideways Press, a at UQP. She has commissioned books Melbourne-based independent publisher of that have won awards such as the Prime books on art, literature and sport. Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Qld Premier’s Literary Awards Non- Angela Meyer’s writing has been widely Fiction Book of the Year and the NSW published, including in Best Australian Stories, Premier’s Literary Award for History. She Island, The Big Issue, The Australian, The has a keen interest in activist publishing and Lifted Brow and Killings. She has previously is also undertaking a doctorate at QUT on published a book of flash fiction,Captives the future of the publisher in a post-digital (Inkerman & Blunt). She has worked culture. in bookstores, as a book reviewer, in a whisky bar, and for the past few years has Alexandra Yatomi-Clarke began her published a range of Australian authors for publishing career at Reed Books Australia. Echo Publishing, including award-winners She has worked at many of the major and an international number-one bestseller. publishing houses in Australia including She grew up in Northern NSW and lives in Cengage, Macmillan and Oxford University Melbourne. A Superior Spectre is her debut Press. She has also worked overseas at novel. other publishing houses including Harper Collins and Conrad Books London. In Anna Lensky has been promoting books, 2009, after a trip to Europe with her authors and writing to a wide range of young family and inspired by the quality audiences for nearly fifteen years. She has and imaginative books children were had a hand in launching two of Australia’s reading in Europe, Alexandra launched key cultural organisations – The Wheeler Presenters ,

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She has She Publishing. Text at Coordinator than a decade, across roles in marketing, publishing for over ten years. She is the editorial, and digital strategy. Currently, author of three YA novels: Life in Outer she’s an associate publisher at Scribe Space, The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Publications. Girl and The Secret Science of Magic. Her short story, ‘Sundays’, is featured in Begin, Mark Davis is coordinator of the Publishing End, Begin, the #LoveOzYA anthology. and Communications program at the University of Melbourne. His research Michael Gordon-Smith is the CEO of focuses on issues of mediation and cultural the Australian Publishers Association. He gatekeeping, and the role of the book has worked for more than 20 years in in digital networked culture. He is lead Australian media and communications investigator on the ARC funded Discovery industries as a director, a government Project, ‘New Tastemakers and Australia’s regulator and the CEO of industry Post-Digital Literary Culture’. associations. Michael has led projects or policies from media ownership to mobile Meaghan Dew is the Podcast Coordinator telephones, from copyright to digital for local lit and culture publication Kill Your television. He has been CEO of the APA Darlings. She began scripting, producing since 2013. He would like to be a faster and editing the podcast five years ago in ocean swimmer and a better player of Go. an attempt to save friends and family from her incessant book nerdery, and continued Michael Hanrahan’s father was a writer, despite realising she has more than enough so he grew up in a house overflowing book talk to go around. Meaghan currently with books. 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Dr 2018. within the Australian and New Zealand industry for over 28 years in a variety book industry including publishing, of product, sales, marketing and senior distribution, on-line services and printing. management roles. She has spent time on Her wide experience is built on a solid both sides of the fence, in academic and business and educational base, including scholarly publishing (Maxwell Macmillan, a Master in Business, and a Graduate Pearson, Bloomsbury Academic) and Diploma in Information Studies. She is in library supply as publisher relations Director of ALS Library Services and manager for James Bennett, working works closely with her staff and with an with print, digital and multimedia eye always on the future trends in the supply chains as well as heading up bookselling, publishing and library industries. their distribution business, Inbooks and Patricia is currently privileged to sit on working globally with owners Blackwell the Board of the Australian Booksellers Book Services (until December 2009) Association and the Indigenous Literacy and Baker & Taylor/YBP (post December Foundation. 2009). Rachael now runs RM Marketing Services, which provides outsourcing Dr Per Henningsgaard is a lecturer in solutions for publishers, predominantly in professional writing and publishing at sales and marketing, as well as consulting Curtin University. Prior to arriving in services for publishers, small and large, Perth, he was the director of the master’s local and international. She has decades degree in book publishing at Portland of experience working in publishing, State University in Portland, Oregon. He distribution, new title and bibliographic recently authored a book chapter titled workflows, channel sales (library, retail, ‘Types of Publishing Houses’ to be included B2C, B2B), marketing and selling print and in the forthcoming Companion to Publishing digital products. Through her business she and Literature. His research interests is also the ANZ contact for publishers include editing and publishing, especially by for Ebook Central, formerly the library independent publishers outside London platforms EBL, ebrary, and MyiLibrary, and New York City, even though he used which are now part of Proquest. to work for a multinational, educational publisher in New York City. Rachel Bin Salleh is a Nimunburr and Yawuru woman from the Dampier Pooja Desai is the Design Manager at Peninsula in the Kimberley of Western Hardie Grant Egmont. She has worked in Australia. She grew up in the pearling publishing for six years and loves creating town of Broome, in a Muslim-Catholic beautiful, engaging books for children, such household, and took up an editorial as this years ABDA award-winning Tales internship at Magabala Books in 1993. From A Tall Forest by Shaun Micallef. In her Rachel has worked with Indigenous spare time she works on brand strategy writers, storytellers, poets, yarners, and design with not-for-profit groups Road songwriters, playwrights, performers to Refuge, Footscray Community Arts and illustrators from across Australia. Centre and ShareGift Australia. She is an experienced editor and has worked in various roles including Sales Rachael McDiarmid has been in the book and Administration Manager, Marketing Presenters , and is Head See What I , Michael , The Easy Way is an award- , Maxine Beneba Maxine Beneba , , and Steven and Steven , Foreign Soil alongside many others. alongside many Mohammed Ahmad’s Mohammed Ahmad’s The Lebs Amsterdam’s Out Illustrated at Hachette Australia and has worked 20 years over in books for including stints in sales, marketing & publicity. and fiction published He’s award winnersnon-fiction and bestsellers including Sarah Schmidt’s Have Done Clarke’s The Hate Race direction. Her passion and direction. expertise lie in book design, worked extensively having with publishers such as Black Dog Macmillan, OUP, Walker Books (an imprint of She also Books) and UNICEF. regularly lectures at RMIT Blue College of and Billy Design. Robert Watkins of Literary and Head of Ambelin Kwaymullina, of Kwaymullina, Ambelin the IntersectionMeet Me at anthology a groundbreaking memoir, #OwnVoice YA of poetry and fiction. Regine Abos and winning book designer a of Studio Regina, founder in design consultancy based Melbourne on with a focus branding, design, publication image-making and art Voices from the Intersection from Voices with and a co-editor, initiative

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and Polish. She is a co-founder of the is a co-founder She and Polish. Award. Her novels have been translated have Her novels Award. Portuguese Turkish, French, into German, Award and the David Gemmell Legend the David and Award Year Award, Aurealis Award Aurealis Award and Davitt Award, Year Gold Inky the for and longlisted Award, been shortlisted the Prime for Minister’s Book of the INDIEFAB LiteraryAward, bestselling ‘Mercy’ series. Her work has series. ‘Mercy’ bestselling (A Older Readers) Book for Notable the and books, including including books, Rebecca Lim and illustrator and the author of eighteen @elendingproject). (elendingproject.org; (elendingproject.org; legal and social impacts of ebook lending legal and social impacts of ebook lending librariesin public around the world authorsinterest), and to understand the authorsinterest), could look like if it actually took authors’ took authors’ if it actually could look like @ interests seriously (authorsinterest.org; five continents. She is currently She is leading continents. five what copyright law research to investigate NGO and industry audiences across at Columbia, Berkeley and Sciences- at Columbia, (Paris) and addressed academic, Po 2017). She has held visiting appointments She has held visiting appointments 2017). What if we could reimagine copyright?What if we could reimagine Press, ANU and others, Weatherall Kim culture. Her written work includes the culture. books at the intersection and literary of law Fellow and Associate Professor within within Associate Professor and Fellow Faculty working Law Monash University’s Dr literary stage. is passionate about publishing First about publishing is passionate Nations creators on a national and international been a director of Magabala Books. Rachel Rachel of Magabala Books. been a director time bookseller, manager of a remote a remote of manager bookseller, time construction has previously and company and Production Co-ordinator, part- Co-ordinator, and Production Rosanna Arciuli is Manager, Member Shaun Larkin is a Senior Arts Officer Communications and Stakeholder at Creative Victoria, where he works to Engagement at Copyright Agency. Rosanna deliver a number of funding programs has worked in various roles at Copyright for independent artists and small arts Agency since 2006. organisations, including the VicArts Grants program and the newly developed Rose Michael is a lecturer in the Masters Creators Fund initiative. of Writing and Publishing program at RMIT. She was previously commissioning editor Sophie Black is Head of Publishing at the at Hardie Grant Books and co-founded Wheeler Centre where she has worked Arcade Publications in 2007. She has been on projects such as the new national published in Griffith Review, Best Australian writers scheme The Next Chapter, The Stories, Island, Cultural Studies Review, Review Messenger podcast (Grand Trophy and of Australian Fiction, Sydney Review of Books, two Gold Medals, New York Festivals Meanjin and Overland. Her first novel,The Radio Awards 2017; UNAA Media Award Asking Game, was a runner-up for the for Best Radio Documentary; Walkley Vogel and received an Aurealis honourable Award for Radio/Audio Feature; Australian mention. Her second, The Art of Navigation, Human Rights Commission Media Award) is out now. and the ABC Radio National program Talkfest. Previously she was Editor in Chief Sam Cooney runs the literary organisation at Private Media, where she headed up TLB, which includes the independent book titles such as Crikey, Women’s Agenda, Daily press Brow Books and quarterly literary Review and SmartCompany. In 2013 she magazine The Lifted Brow. He is publisher- delivered the Adelaide Festival of Ideas as in-residence at RMIT, teaches sessionally at Director. She sits on the advisory board various universities, and is a freelance writer for Melbourne University’s Centre for and literary critic. In 2017 he took part Advancing Journalism and the human rights in the Australia Council’s ‘Future Leaders’ publication Right Now. Sophie is the former professional development program, earlier editor of Crikey and regularly appears this year he was a part of the Australia on ABC local radio and television, most Council publishing delegation tour of India, recently as a regular panellist on ABC TV’s and he recently undertook funded trips to Screen Time. the United States and the UK to research not-for-profit trade publishing. Sophie Masson is the award-winning and internationally-published author of over Shalini Kunahlan is Marketing Manager sixty books for children, young adults and at Melbourne-based independent Text adults. Sophie is a founding partner and co- Publishing. She has worked in publishing director of Christmas Press, an acclaimed for over a decade – her interests include publisher founded in 2013, producing digital marketing and bettering diversity children’s picture books and children’s and outcomes within publishing. She is the YA fiction in several imprints. Sophie has inaugural winner of the ABIA Rising Star served on the Board of the Australian Award (2018). Society of Authors, the Literature Board, and the Book Industry Collaborative Presenters Presenters Council, and is currently Chair of the New Bonnier Publishing Australia England Writers’ Centre. A regional NSW where she led the successful resident, she is currently undertaking a marketing and sales strategy PHD at the University of New England. for 2018’s best-selling adult She has been on the SPN Board since fiction title,The Tattooist 2015 and brings her extensive experience of Auschwitz. Today she is across several sectors of the industry to Commercial Director of discussions. Her research piece, ‘Going over Five Mile, where she works to the other side: the new breed of author- closely with her longstanding publishers’, initially presented as a paper at partners including ABC Kids, the 2016 Conference, has appeared as a The Wiggles, Sally Rippin and book chapter in Publishing Means Business Trace Moroney. (Monash University Publishing, 2017), and another research piece, ‘Crowdfunding Tim Coronel is the general and small publishers’, will appear in a manager of the Small forthcoming Monash University Publishing Press Network. He has book. been involved in the book industry for 30 years – Stephanie Siriwane works across editorial variously as a bookseller; a and rights at Scribe Publications and journalist and commentator Scribble Kids’ Books. on the book trade; a writer, editor and publisher of Dr Sybil Nolan is the coordinator and one books, magazines and online of the founders of Grattan Street Press, the content; and as a publishing teaching press at University of Melbourne. consultant. He is a sessional She is a lecturer in publishing studies, and lecturer and subject co- the program coordinator of the Master of ordinator in the University Publishing and Communications. of Melbourne’s school of culture and communications. Tash Besliev has worked in publishing He was the co-ordinator of for over 15 years across small, medium the Independent Publishing and large houses, independently owned, Conference for the Small foreign owned and joint venture ownership Press Network in 2013 and businesses. She’s worked across most 2014. functions of the publishing pipeline, but specialised in marketing, sales, children’s Tim White is the co- publishing and brand licensing. Over an owner of Books for eight-year period she went from marketing Cooks, a specialist culinary coordinator to managing director of bookstore selling new, old Hardie Grant Egmont, where she lead the and antiquarian books on marketing and sales effort that created wine and food right in the the best-selling junior fiction series ‘Billie heart of Melbourne. Over B Brown’, ‘Hey Jack!’, ‘Go Girl!’ and ‘Zac the past 18 years, Books for Power’. In her last role, she was CEO of Cooks has run hundreds of offsite pop-up event bookstores and anonymous premonition (UQP 2008) has book events, been the official bookseller been awarded the David Unaipon Award for the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival (2005), Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize 2008–2015; and held hundreds of in- for Indigenous Writing (2008), Scanlon store and offsite author events. Tim is Poetry Prize 2008, and Kate Challis RAKA responsible for the social media marketing Award (2010). and programming of events at Books for Cooks. Tim is also a longstanding member Zoe Dattner is a publisher at Private of the ABA board. Media where she leads their flagship business publication, SmartCompany. Tracy O’Shaughnessy is a trade book Previously, Zoe spent 15 years in the book publisher with over twenty years’ trade, as co-founder of Sleepers Publishing experience. Throughout her diverse career and founding member of the Small Press she has worked at a number of Australia’s Network, where she was general manager leading publishing houses, including Hardie for five years. Grant Books, Melbourne University Press as the Miegunyah Publisher, and Allen & Unwin. She is currently Program Director of RMIT University’s Master of Writing and Publishing and publisher of the student-led Bowen Street Press.

Wenona Byrne is the Arts Practice Director, Literature, at the Australia Council for the Arts. In that role Wenona advocates for writers and literary organisations to develop projects that benefit the sector including Council’s peer-assessed grants program. Prior to joining the Australia Council Wenona worked in publishing for 11 years, nine years as Rights Manager with independent publisher Allen & Unwin, working closely with Australian authors and agents to pitch titles to international publishers in North America, UK, Europe and Asia.

Yvette Henry Holt is a national multi- award winning poet, academic, comedienne and Chairperson of FNAWN (First Nations Australia Writers Network) whose works have been widely published and anthologised, both in print and online. Yvette’s debut collection of poetry titled Notes Glossary

Commonly used acronyms and terms of the deteriorating. book industry ARP AB&P Australian Recommended Price (also see RRP). Australian Bookseller & Publisher. See B+P. Artwork ABA Graphic or text material prepared for Australian Booksellers Association. reproduction.

ACBA ASA Australian Campus Booksellers Association. Australian Society of Authors.

Advance Asana A payment to an author by a publisher against Asana is the leading project management which future royalty earnings are offset. software for large and small organisations.

Agent Assignment (of copyright) A person or organisation commissioned by a The transfer or sale of the ownership of publisher or distributor to sell books to retail copyright in a work from the creator to another outlets. May also be a person or organisation party. who represents the ‘interests of an author’ to a publisher. Auction Where a manuscript is submitted by an agent to Agency model a number of publishers for the highest price or Where the publisher set the selling price of its best offer. eBook to the eRetailer and the eRetailer agrees not to discount the book. AUSBIP Australian Books in Print. ALIA Australian Library and Information Association. Australian Title A book that is listed or will be listed in the AMCOS Australian National Bibliography and which has See APRA/AMCOS an ISBN. May be a local printing of a major title or a local adaptation of an overseas title. APA Australian Publishers Association (formerly the B+P ABPA, Australian Book Publishers Association). Books + Publishing. Quarterly book industry magazine established in 1921 (see AB&P). APRA/AMCOS APRA: Australian Performing Rights Association. Backlist AMCOS: Australasian Mechanical Copyright Titles which have been available on the market Owners Society. for a significant period of time. See Frontlist and Midlist. Archival paper Specialised paper designed to last without Glossary Barcode A scannable code which provides information Book Council of Australia on a particular title. Includes a graphic Announced by the Prime representation of the ISBN. Also see EAN. Minister in December 2014 as the peak advocacy body for Barcode Solutions publishers and writers. Supplier of bookshop stock and sales Scrapped in 2015. management software in Australia and New Zealand. BookData Properly Nielsen BookData Basecamp Online. Supplier of global Publishing software that combines all business bibliographic information to operations in one place. the Australian book trade, especially Nielsen BookScan. Berne Convention Competitor to Bowker’s The international agreement made in 1886 to Books in Print. protect Literary and Artistic content. Book fairs Bestseller Exhibitions and conventions A title that is included on top-selling lists based used by publishers as locations on sales figures and industry statistics. for meetings and business dealings. The most important Bibliocloud international book fairs are Bibliocloud is a general management and royalty Frankfurt and London, Bologna system for large and small publishers. children’s book fair and the American Booksellers BIC/BASIC Association (ABA)’s BookExpo. A set of basic Book Industry Communication classifications and standards. Books in Print Properly Bowker’s Books in Bleed Print, the global database of A term used for an illustration or image which over 20 million titles, including extends beyond the trimmed page. all Australian and New Zealand (in print, out of print, Blue Newsletter/Blue News forthcoming, etc.), including See WBN. books, ebooks, audio books, and multimedia. Blurb Publisher’s description of a book, usually printed BookNet on the cover or jacket of a book. Inventory management software from UniLink Data Systems. Bookbub A book marketing and discovery platform that Bookseller, The promotes limited time discounts for eBooks. The Bookseller is the weekly business magazine of the UK and Book clubs international book industries. Mail order operations through which selected books are sold direct to the public, eg. Scholastic BookScan Book Club. Properly Nielsen BookScan. The book sales monitoring and measurement system used as the basis of most for publication; sometimes referred to as an bestseller lists in Australia, as well as industry acquiring or acquisitions editor. analysis. Previously BookTrack. Copyediting Book tokens Checking a manuscript for grammar, spelling Gift vouchers with monetary values redeemable and typographical errors, and inconsistencies in at bookshops. style. This process often follows a structural or developmental edit. BookTrack See BookScan. Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Properly the Copyright Agency. By appointment book2look of the Australian Government, the Copyright Online marketing tool for publishers and Agency collects fees and distributes royalties booksellers. to creator members for the reuse of text and images. It manages licenses in education, Camera-ready artwork (CRA) government, and commercial areas, and also A printing industry term for camera-ready manages the Resale Royalty scheme for artists, artwork in digital form. and the special provisions for institutions assisting people with print. Distributes over $100 million a Camera-ready copy (CRC) year to copyright owners. The text of a title supplied to a printer for reproduction and printing. Counterpack A presentation pack placed on or beside a Capital expenditure bookshop counter to encourage impulse Outlays on capital equipment included all costs purchases. capitalised in the account books of a business. Creative Commons (CC) Chains An international non-profit organisation that One of the three general market retail provides free licences and tools that copyright channels in the Australian book trade, joining owners can use to allow others to legally share, Independents and DDS (Department and reuse and remix their material. Discount Stores). Chains include Dymocks, QBD, Harry Hartog, etc., as well as online stores such CrossRef as Booktopia. CrossRef is a not-for-profit independent membership association founded by publishers CiP with a mandate to connect users to primary See Pre-publication Data Service. research content. It’s also the official Digital Object Identifer link registration agency for Citation scholarly and professional publications. Acknowledgement or reference to ideas, facts or opinions from another publication. DataPage Datapage is an extension of the APA’s TitlePage Consignment service. Books sold on consignment are paid for as they are resold rather than being invoiced to the DDS customer. Department and Discount Stores. Includes Kmart, Target, Big W, Myer, David Jones, etc. Commissioning editor A person employed in a publishing house to Discount seek out authors to write particular books A percentage of the recommended retail price Glossary of a book subtracted by the publisher when Educational Lending Right (see supplying the book to a retailer. PLR).

Distributor EPOS Company that supplies other publishers’ books Electronic Point of Sale. to retailers, either nationally or at state level. ePUB Distribution Centre E-book file format. Although one Location where orders from booksellers are of a number of formats/standards, received and processed and where books from ePub is increasingly being publishers are stored and dispatched. accepted as the industry standard for eBook production. DOI Digital Object Identifier. A digital identifier of eReaders objects which is often described as the ISBN for Any device on which eBooks digital content. can be read, including dedicated readers (Kobo, Kindle etc), tablets DRM (iPad), smartphones, notebooks, Digital Rights Management. Developed for piracy laptops. prevention and now controls viewing, copying and printing of material. eRetailers Refers to local and overseas Dumpbin resellers who sell eBooks online. A presentation stand, usually containing Includes some brick-and-mortar 20–40 copies of a book, used for point of sale local booksellers, international merchandising in bookshops. companies with Australian offices (eg Kobo, Google), global EAN/UPC companies (Amazon, Apple). European Article Number/Universal Product Code (see also ISBN). Firm sale Books supplied by publisher that Easy royalties may not be returned unsold by Royalty accounting software. booksellers. eBook FOB Electronic book. A book-length publication in Freight on Board. Used with digital form, consisting of text, images, or both. overseas sales when the seller (the Australian publisher) pays the EDI freight for the books to go to the Electronic Data Interchange. overseas publisher’s/bookseller’s shippers in Australia, then the Edit-EUR buyer (the overseas publisher or The trade standards body for the global book, bookseller) pays the rest of the eBook and serials supply chains. cost (freight, insurances, etc.) to get the books to their door. Also Electronic Ink (also called e-paper/ iINK) referred to as Free on Board. Electronic ink allows changeable text and image displays. Used for applications such as eBooks. Folio Page number. ELR Formats Book sizes. Usually expressed in depth then Properly Adobe Incopy, it allows writers and width. editors to style text, track changes and make simple layout modifications to a document. Frontlist New books, or books that are less than12 INCOTERMS 2000 months old (see Backlist and Midlist). The international rules for the interpretation of the most commonly used terms in foreign trade. Full-colour States the points at which risk and responsibility Printing using the four-colour process. change between parties.

Global Books in Print INDECS See Books in Print. Interoperability of Data for Electronic Commerce Systems. A standards infrastructure Google settlement for e-commerce. Google, without the permission of copyright owners, was scanning in-copyright books Indent and other material held in the USA and was To import for sale a legal edition of a book from displaying excerpts without permission. Authors a source other than the Australian copyright and publishers filed a class suit in the USA to holder. stop the practice. The ‘Google settlement’ allows Google to continue the practice with works Indies (Independents) published before 5 January 2009 but allows Usually applied to privately owned bookshops copyright owners to ‘opt out’. with fewer than five stores operating in fewer than three states/territories eg Readings, Mary Hard copy Ryan. A printed version of a manuscript or other text. IngramSpark HTML IngramSpark is specifically designed for small Hyper Text Markup Language. publishers/indie-authors. Titles can be printed on demand – one at a time or as many as required HTTP and at a number of different sites throughout the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. world, depending where stock is required.

Imprint IPC The name of the publisher under which a title is Independent Publishing Conference. The only issued, or the term which represents a publishing publishing conference held in Australia. Organised brand rather than a publishing company in its by the Small Press Network and held annually in own right. Also used to refer to the printer’s November. name and address which by law must appear in all printed books. ISBN International Standard Book Number. Imprint page Usually the reverse page of a book’s title page. ISSN Carries information such as CIP data, including International Standard Serial Number. the book’s ISBN, copyright notice, publication date, as well as information about the publisher Issuu and printer. A digital publishing platform that allows publishers to create and sell professional looking eBooks and other publications around the world. Incopy Inventory Glossary The total stock in trade of a bookseller or publisher. Metadata The electronic bibliographic Large print information about content, such Editions of existing titles redesigned for reading as author, title, ISBN, publisher, by those with impaired vision. publication date, description. Used to display content on Leading Edge search engines and other digital Properly Leading Edge Group. A buying and media. marketing group that includes over 100 independent booksellers. Midlist Titles that are financially viable Legacy publishers but are unlikely to sell in very A term used to describe traditional publishers, large quantities. Most books usually within the eBook debate. published in Australia are midlist (see Backlist and Frontlist). Legal Deposit Statutory provision to ensure that a copy of Moral Rights all publications in Australia is lodged with the A creator’s right to have their National Library of Australia and other statutory work attributed to them, and the deposit libraries (most often state libraries). right to protect the work from alteration. Licence (exclusive/non-exclusive licence) The right to use a creator’s work in specific and NetGalley defined ways, on an exclusive or non-exclusive NetGalley is a website where basis, for a period of time, usually the life of book reviewers, booksellers, copyright. Unlike assignment, ownership of the librarians, etc., can access books work does not pass. for review before they are published, in e-galley or digital Literary/Business agent galley form. This refers to a person or company who looks after the interests of author clients and manages NLA the exploitation of rights in an author’s work. National Library of Australia.

Manuscript/MS New edition The handwritten/typed/word processed copy of This can be a reprint of an a book. existing title, or a republication of a title which has been out of Market print for a substantial period. The potential readership for a title and/or the territories of the world in which a title may be Newslink contractually sold. Major bookselling newsagent chain (owned by Hachette). Mass market/mass market paperbacks Sales channels that extend beyond traditional NLA trade outlets to include newsstands, discount National Library of Australia. stores and supermarkets. Mass market paperback covers are designed to attract a mass audience, and the books are usually printed on less ONIX expensive paper than trade paperbacks. Online Information Exchange. A book industry-specific XML format for metadata. commentary on all aspects of the book industry throughout the world. Published daily from New Open Access York. Resources that are openly available to users with no requirements for authentication or payment. Publishers Weekly Commonly known as PW, Publishers Weekly is a Operating profit before tax weekly news magazine focused on the US and Total income plus closing stock, minus total costs international book publishing business. and opening stocks. Prepublication Data Service Packager Formerly Cataloguing in Publication (CiP). Third party company that creates and originates, sometimes manufactures, books for publishers. Profit margin Operating profit before tax as a percentage of Pacstream total turnover. With Pacstream software, retailers can send orders electronically to their suppliers and Pressbooks receive back acknowledgements and invoices. Simple software that lets authors and small publishers create print-ready PDFs and eBook Page proof formats. Proof of the made-up pages in a book. A page proof is often used not only to check accuracy of Recto typesetting but also as an advance promotional A right hand page of an open book, or the front tool. of a loose document (see Verso). pBooks Referencing Printed books, as distinct from electronic books The practice of acknowledging sources of (see eBooks). information and ideas used in a publication (see Plagiarism). PDF Portable Document Format. Reprint A second or subsequent printing of a title with Peer Review no/minimal alteration to the text and or artwork Assessment of material submitted for publication (also see New Edition). (usually in a journal) by an editor and one or more experts who are professional peers of the Resale Royalty author. The scheme, also called a droit de suite, which entitles the artist to a royalty payment when a Plagiarism work of art he or she has created is resold. Copying other peoples’ ideas and work without acknowledgement. Returns Unsold books returned to the publisher or PLR distributor. Public Lending Right. Re-exports POD Exports from Australia of books originally Print on Demand. imported into Australia by an Australian publisher. Publishing Perspectives A free, emailed newsletter with news and Rights Glossary The permission to use an author’s work in send/receive submissions and different ways, such as the right to sell it in track progress. foreign countries, to publish all/part in magazines, to broadcast etc. Subscription The process whereby a title Royalty is sold to booksellers in Payment due to a copyright owner for the advance of publication. Also exploitation of a copyright work (see advances). pre-purchase of a number of issues of a journal or RRP magazine. Recommended Retail Price. Sometimes ARP (Australian Retail Price). Sunset clauses Clauses in publishing SAN contracts that can be revisited Standard Address Number. The unique seven- as mutually agreed times. digit identifier used to signify a specific address of Applies in particular but an organisation in (or served by) the publishing not exclusively to electronic industry. (eBook) rights.

SOR Supplier Sale or Return. Somebody who supplies books to retail outlets. May SPUNC be a publisher or distributor. Small Press Underground Networking Community (see SPN). Terms of trade The terms, including SPN discount and returns policy, Small Press Network (formerly Small Press under which a publisher or Underground Networking Community). distributor supplies books to Membership organisation dedicated to advancing retail outlets. the interests of new independent publishers in Australia (see APA). Thema A development of the SRDP Onix system of subject Short Run Digital Printing. classification.

STM 30/90-day rule Stands for the Scientific, Technical and The Copyright Act’s parallel Medical publishing sector. It is also the name importation provisions that of an international organisation based in the mean any book first published Netherlands which represents the interests of overseas after 23 December STM publishers. 1991 must be published in Australia within 30 days Stocks – opening/closing of its overseas publication Stocks of material and of finished goods and date or the copyright owner work-in-progress at the beginning and end of a ‘forfeits the right to control period covered. importation permanently’. Thorpe-Bowker Identifer Submittable Services Cloud based system for writers and publishers to Publisher and provider of key data and information for the book industry, including being the Australian ISBN Agency. WBN Thorpe-Bowker is an affiliate of ProQuest Group. Weekly Book Newsletter. Properly Books+Publishing’s Weekly Book Newsletter. Title Page The Australian Publishers Association’s online Wholesale Model stock confirmation and ordering system. Where publishers set the recommended retail price of their books (e or pBooks), the retailer Total operating costs is given a discount off the recommended selling Sum of all costs items, ie wages and salaries paid price and the retailer can choose the price they to own employees, royalties and fees paid, costs charge customers. of printing, landed costs of books imported, advertising and promotional costs, distribution XML and other marketing costs and ‘other’ costs. Extensible Markup Language. A general-purpose markup language. Total turnover Sum of all turnover items, ie sales of books, sales of other products, receipts from royalties, sale of rights, government grants, PLR, Copyrigh Agency income, etc.

Typeface The design of the individual characters making up the text of a book.

UniLink UniLink Data Systems is a systems developer that provides the BookNet bookshop inventory management systems used by campus and independent booksellers.

Verso A left-hand page of an open book, or the back of a loose document (see Recto).

Viscopy The not-for-profit artwork rights management organisation representing Australian and NZ artists and thousands of overseas visual artists. Now merged with Copyright Agency.

Woodfree Paper made from chemically treated woodpulp and used for good quality book production.

Versioning Multiple versions of content. It may involve publishing an existing work in a different format, or reconfiguring existing content to produce a new work. Notes Member Benefits

SPN is always on the lookout for businesses and organisations to partner with to offer our members benefits and discounts to important services that will help businesses. Here are some of the benefits on offer: • NetGalley: discounted access to upload your titles onto the global online book review service • Books+Publishing: discounted subscriptions and advertising • Ingram Spark: discount offers with the global print- on-demand provider and book distributor • Nielsen: discounts on the Book2Look online marketing suite and BookScan sales reports • ABA Australia Post: access discounted postage via SPN’s associate membership of the Australian Booksellers Association • ASA Model Publishing Agreement: use the industry- standard contract template to simplify and professionalise relationships with your authors (full members only) • Free entry for up to five titles to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (full members only) • Closed Facebook group for confidential peer advice and discussions • Christmas catalogue: get your titles in front of booksellers and library suppliers around the country SPN Team Members

General Manager Tim Coronel

Programming and Conference Manager Matthia Dempsey

Co-Conveners Alexandra Dane Millicent Weber

Secretary and Sponsorship Manager Michaela Skelly

SPN Board

Associate Producers Beverly Brigham, Coral Huckstep, Ellen Stephens, Jessica Harvie, Meg Kerr