All books have been published through Blurb, which allows everyday Australians to turn their content into professional quality books.
It’s a little known fact that the National Library requires a copy of all publically-published Australian books, as part of the Copyright Act, whether they have an ISBN or not.
Blurb asked its Australian bookmakers to nominate their books to be sent to the National Library of Australia; the first 100 people to respond had their book reprinted. All 100 books were delivered on the 3rd of November.
The call out from Blurb, revealed the true creativity of Australian self-publishers, with a range of books from a personal 365-day photo project, an amateur Graffiti of Melbourne collection, a travel guide of New York, through to a recipe book written by a 13 year old inspired by the traditional meals of her family.
Je toto lokální, nebo národní zvyk? was produced during a five month artist-in-residence program at the Meet Factory in Prague, Czech Republic from November 2007 to April 2008. The Inexperienced Guide by Peter Fitzpatrick documents this series. Peter is a photomedia artist and lecturer at ANU.
Self-published titles are becoming increasingly popular as the technology opens up book-publishing to everyone – Blurb is seeing the creation of thousands of books yearly by Australians alone.
The Library welcomed the delivery and encourages all self-published authors to forward a copy of their book, with a return address for receipt confirmation to:
Legal Deposit Unit
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600
About Blurb
Blurb, is a creative publishing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell book store quality books. It’s easy. Just check out au.blurb.com and you’ll find all the tools you need, whether you’re a beginner or experienced creative professional. Make a softcover or hardcover book and choose from a wide range of book sizes and cover options. Order one book or many – volume discounts apply. Share your book or sell it in the Blurb bookstore. You set the price and keep 100% of the profits. Blurb also makes it simple to get the word out with free online promotion tools from badges to BookShow, our online book preview widget that lets friends and fans flip through a digital copy of your book on your website, blog, or Facebook page. Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. We’re thrilled to help celebrate the diverse creativity and inspiration that our bookmakers represent.
