<meta charset="utf-8">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.<div>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Felicity Meakins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:f.meakins@uq.edu.au">f.meakins@uq.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I would also suggest Batchelor Press. I don't know about Learner's Guides<br>
but they do require a subsidy for dictionaries. But it is local, indigenous<br>
and they have some distribution as well as communities in mind.<br>
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The MILR funding round is coming up which could be a good place to get some<br>
publication funding from for something like this<br>
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On 19/10/10 6:43 AM, "Rachel Nordlinger" <<a href="mailto:racheln@unimelb.edu.au">racheln@unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Claire,<br>
><br>
> You could try Batchelor Press - <a href="http://batchelorpress.com/" target="_blank">http://batchelorpress.com/</a>. I'm not sure<br>
> whether they take outside submissions, but I know that they're just about to<br>
> publish Marri Ngarr, Magati Ge, Marri Tjevin and Marri Ammu learners guides.<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
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> Rachel<br>
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> On 18/10/10 11:25 PM, "Claire Bowern" <<a href="mailto:clairebowern@gmail.com">clairebowern@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi all,<br>
>> I'm trying to find a publisher for the Yan-nhangu learner's guide<br>
>> (Yan-nhangu's a Yolngu language) and it's turning out of be quite<br>
>> difficult! I want to publish it somewhere local if possible, and I<br>
>> don't want to use a vanity press.<br>
>> I've tried IAD press, but they sat on the ms for 18 months and then<br>
>> said they would need a subsidy and couldn't start working on it for 2<br>
>> years. Then I tried CDU Press; they made positive noises, then did<br>
>> nothing for a year, and then decided they couldn't take the ms after<br>
>> all). Aboriginal Studies Press don't have a single language book on<br>
>> their catalogue so I assume that's a no-go.<br>
>> Does anyone have suggestions for other publishers to try?<br>
>> Thanks!<br>
>> Claire<br>
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