{"id":2379,"date":"2019-10-28T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T04:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2022-02-07T01:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T01:22:49","slug":"full-program-announced-for-spn-conference-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2019\/10\/28\/2379\/full-program-announced-for-spn-conference-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Full program announced for SPN conference 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the full program for its 2019 Independent Publishing Conference, which will run at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 21\u201323 November. It will feature 80 speakers in 36 different sessions, as well as two book launches and the presentation of the Most Underrated Book Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s trade day on 22 November will feature sessions on diverse children\u2019s books, reviewing, funding, copyright, legal deposit and lending rights, festivals, publishing business models, as well as an \u2018ask me anything\u2019 session with Wheeler Centre staff and a session on the career pathways of recent graduates from publishing postgraduate courses. The trade day will also include a Nielsen BookScan update, a session on the current research by Macquarie University examining the\u00a0international rights sales and export<\/a>\u00a0of Australian books over the last 10 years, and a \u2018state of the industry\u2019 panel, featuring guests from industry trade bodies the Australian Publishers Association, the Australian Booksellers Association, the Australian Society of Authors, and the Australian Library and Information Association.<\/p>\n

Author Toni Jordan will deliver the trade day keynote on her experiences of being edited and published, dealing with publicity and promotions, and having her work adapted and translated. The keynote will be followed by a Q&A with former bookseller Mary Dalmau.<\/p>\n

The fundamentals day on 23 November will feature a\u00a0keynote by publishing consultant Malcolm Neil on the changing markets in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia, alongside sessions on publishing timelines, how to write a marketing plan, rights and royalties, bookshops and events, metadata and marketing, cover design, audiobooks, website and social media, publishing platforms, publishing Indigenous stories, and getting books into libraries and schools.<\/p>\n

The industry research day will feature a keynote by Claire Squires from Scotland\u2019s Stirling Centre for International Publishing, as well as sessions on digital and virtual sites of publishing, popular fiction and physical and material sites of book culture.<\/p>\n

SPN general manager Tim Coronel noted that SPN received \u2018extra sponsorship late in the day from the City of Melbourne and Aboriginal Studies Press\u2019, in addition to the support of the Copyright Agency\u2019s Cultural Fund and industry sponsors Thorpe-Bowker, IngramSpark, Ligare, the ABA and Readings. \u2018This ensures we have sufficient revenue to offer our speakers proper payment and to put on Australia\u2019s biggest professional development event for the book trade,\u2019 said Coronel.<\/p>\n

\u2018Organising an event of this scale is a massive undertaking, and I have to thank my conference co-ordinator Jessica Harvie and her associate producers Bridget Black and Vidisha Srinivasan for all their hard work to date: there\u2019s plenty more to come! The support and advice of SPN\u2019s board is also very much appreciated.\u2019<\/p>\n

To view the program for each day and book tickets, visit the\u00a0SPN website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This news story first appeared in\u00a0<\/em>Books+Publishing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Books+Publishing\u00a0is Australia\u2019s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping\u00a0<\/em>subscribers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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