[csaa-forum] Seminar @ UNSW

[James Donald]

UNSW Media Film and Theatre Seminars
Wednesday 31 May 2006
5 p.m. Webster Building 327


Cultures of Independence
Small/Independent US, UK and Australian Presses
in an Age of Conglomerate Publishing

Noel King


What are the present role and future prospects of small and/or 
independent publishers at a time when large presses work in tandem 
with the power of bookstore chains to put certain kinds of book 
product in front of the book purchasing public? 

In this paper, I look at small presses in Australia (Fremantle Arts 
Centre Press; Wakefield Press; Scribe Press), England (Pete Ayrton's 
Serpent's Tail Press in London) and the US (Russ Chatham's Clark City 
Press in Livingston, Montana; Steerforth Press in Hanover, New 
Hampshire, and Dennis McMillan's Press in Tucson, Arizona).  They all 
publish a mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and cultural criticism. 
Drawing on interviews I have conducted with the publishers, I discuss 
their aesthetic and business strategies of their respective 
publishing enterprises and reveal how they survive in our 
contemporary moment of globalised, big-merger publishing.

Dr Noel King is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies 
at Macquarie University.

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Dr James Donald
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

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