publisher of learner's guides?

[Piers Kelly]

Off the topic: I'd love to see Aboriginal Studies Press expand its range of
eBooks along the lines of ANU E Press. In other words, there is an editorial
or peer-review process to maintain quality for print on demand titles (free
as a pdf). So it's not vanity and you get lots of readers. I'm a big fan of
the concept. A couple of weeks ago I attended an E Press book launch with no
physical book on display at the event—this was not even remarked upon as
unusual.



On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Felicity Meakins <f.meakins at uq.edu.au>wrote:

> I would also suggest Batchelor Press. I don't know about Learner's Guides
> but they do require a subsidy for dictionaries. But it is local, indigenous
> and they have some distribution as well as communities in mind.
>
> The MILR funding round is coming up which could be a good place to get some
> publication funding from for something like this
>
>
> On 19/10/10 6:43 AM, "Rachel Nordlinger" <racheln at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi Claire,
> >
> > You could try Batchelor Press - http://batchelorpress.com/.  I'm not
> sure
> > whether they take outside submissions, but I know that they're just about
> to
> > publish Marri Ngarr, Magati Ge, Marri Tjevin and Marri Ammu learners
> guides.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rachel
> >
> >
> > On 18/10/10 11:25 PM, "Claire Bowern" <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >> I'm trying to find a publisher for the Yan-nhangu learner's guide
> >> (Yan-nhangu's a Yolngu language) and it's turning out of be quite
> >> difficult! I want to publish it somewhere local if possible, and I
> >> don't want to use a vanity press.
> >> I've tried IAD press, but they sat on the ms for 18 months and then
> >> said they would need a subsidy and couldn't start working on it for 2
> >> years. Then I tried CDU Press; they made positive noises, then did
> >> nothing for a year, and then decided they couldn't take the ms after
> >> all). Aboriginal Studies Press don't have a single language book on
> >> their catalogue so I assume that's a no-go.
> >> Does anyone have suggestions for other publishers to try?
> >> Thanks!
> >> Claire
> >
>
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