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Register your work with the Lending Rights Scheme and the Australian Copyright Agency - https://www.arts.gov.au/funding-and-support/australian-lending-right-schemes-elrplr   Deadline for submitting new claims is 31 March each year. Authors, illustrators, publishers and translators can receive income from books that are borrowed from lending libraries. Registering with the Lending Rights Scheme…

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© Rita Shaw   So, you have written the latest Australian best seller! What is your next step? You can try to find a commercial publisher or go down the self-publishing track. These hints and tips are listed here to help you with self-publishing.   Copy Editor Copy editors work…

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© Jude Chapman   Global changes Globalisation over the past thirty years has changed the publishing world immeasurably. In English-speaking countries, publishing is now dominated by the ‘big 5’ – Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, and Hachette – entities that have grown out of the consolidation…

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