Signing on the dotted line: the lived experience of book contracts in contemporary Australian small-press publishing.
The publishing contract is the central legal feature of any publishing professional's life, whether creator, literary agent, or publisher. And with small press becoming an ever more important part of the Australian publishing scene, the contracts landscape has diversified and become more complex. Th...
| Publicado en: | New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 471 - 483 |
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Nov2020
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