Family and friends are gathering this morning to mourn the loss of Diana Gribble AM, one of the pre-eminent figures in the local and national publishing industry over recent decades.

Detail of a portrait of Di Gribble sourced from ArtsHub

Many tributes and obituaries have been published in the days since Di passed away of cancer last week at the age of 69. The…

The digital publishing revolution has led to an exponential rise in the amount of words published - and mistakes made. A BBC report published last week claims bad spelling online can hurt revenue because it reduces reader confidence in the website and its brand. The article quotes William Dutton, an academic from the Oxford Internet Institute, as saying that while consumers “might be wary…

For a long time, literary magazines have been the lifeblood of books, writing and ideas. With Harpers in trouble, the recent hiatus of Heat, and the whole industry in flux, here’s an overview of good reading on the subject.

We begin with a mythbuster. The myth is that a literary magazine or journal is less likely to survive in the marketplace than a…