{"id":3076,"date":"2022-06-22T23:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T23:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2022-06-23T02:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:40:38","slug":"junes-independent-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2022\/06\/22\/3076\/junes-independent-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"June&#8217;s Independent Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to the June issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books+Publishing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s monthly <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Publishing <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After running a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/2022\/05\/18\/uk-investigation-into-hybrid-publishing-finds-widespread-dissatisfaction\/\">summary<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/societyofauthors.org\/SOA\/MediaLibrary\/SOAWebsite\/Documents-for-download\/_REPORT-Is-it-a-steal.pdf\">UK report<\/a> on hybrid (paid for) publishing in the May newsletter, I\u2019ve spent the past month talking to authors, publishers and other industry people about the market for hybrid publishing in Australia. It\u2019s a topic that generates a lot of passionate responses on both sides.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main take-away for authors considering a hybrid deal is to do your own research. Before signing, you must know about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you\u2019re giving your money to, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you\u2019re paying for. You\u2019ll find the full results of my little investigation into the topic below, as well as a comprehensive checklist courtesy of the Australian Society of Authors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would be remiss of me to not mention up top that history was made in the past month, with Michael Winkler becoming the first self-published author to make the Miles Franklin longlist, for his novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grimmish<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I\u2019ve linked to a piece he wrote for the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Age <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">below, which I\u2019m sure many indie authors will find inspiring.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to everyone who has reached out to share their experience or expertise with me. As always, please get in touch with me at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brad@booksandpublishing.com.au<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with any feedback or questions about the newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy reading (and writing)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brad Jefferies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editor, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Publishing<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the June issue of Books+Publishing\u2019s monthly Independent Publishing newsletter. After running a summary of a UK report on hybrid (paid for) publishing in the May newsletter, I\u2019ve spent the past month talking to authors, publishers and other industry people about the market for hybrid publishing in Australia. It\u2019s a topic that generates a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorial"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}