Philosophy
In the interests of conducting a fair and reputable business, Locus believes in the following ethical publishing guidelines:
- Produce quality written works.
- Seek to represent varied and distinctive authors and material.
- Fostering of Australian talent and support within the publishing industry.
- Offer contracts that are fair and balanced between the signing parties.
- Fair payment for author work and other general services.
- Conduct business in a sustainable way, avoiding unnecessary use of energy, paper and materials.
- Only print books and magazines on 100 per cent recycled paper.
- Use the most energy efficient print processes available.
- Strive to maintain a ‘no pulping’ policy.
- Promote values of fairness, diversity, individuality and free speech.
Companies that subscribe to this philosophy are:
aduki independent press
Vignette Press
To add your business to this list and help to promote ethical standards within the industry, contact Locus.
July 23, 2007 at 11:52 pm
[...] Philosophy [...]
November 25, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Hey Locus,
My name’s Kirk Marshall, a haggard writer-boy stalwart of Brisbane, Queensland: campus ex-patriate and graduand of almer mater the Queensland University of Technology’s Bachelor of Creative Industries (majoring in Creative Writing) discipline, having been awarded a Distinction upon exiting the degree toward the conclusion of 2005; I’m customarily a fiction-specific scrivener, a freelance illustrator, independent filmmaker and mobilized environmentalist having just returned from exhaustive English-Language conversation school teaching work within Tokyo, Japan. As of commencement of August, 2007, the publication and distribution of Aurealis Award-nominee “A Solution to Economic Depression in Little Tokyo, 1953″ (c), a full-colour illustrated graphic novelette available for purchase from outlets throughout Queensland & beyond, correlated with the genesis of A Cowboy Named Molasses Publishing: a formative self-publication venture through which new Australian creative-writing/literary works are to be championed for consignment to local independent booksellers. As of composing, then, the second prospective title under A Cowboy Named Molasses Publishing imprint will be an extended children’s book/collaborative storybook, primed for 2008, to be nominatively entitled “The People I Know…” (c), and typeset/illustrated by Liberty Browne, designer for Australia’s newly-burgeoning “The Lifted Brow” literary journal. In this way, then, this correspondence constitutes an expression of intent & interest to be added and encompassed within your present compiled small press list, and A Cowboy Named Molasses Publishing wholly upholds an impermeable empathy & advocacy for publishing methodologies which harness or extol environmentally-sustainable design & printing processes.
The website address incorporated is that of my personalised current up-to-date writerly weblog, Fun_With_Kites, which details subsequent information on especial & auspicious projects of mine. Moreover, your web address has proven an informative & positively reifying resource for a newly-inaugurated small-time self-publisher.
Kampei!,
Kirk.
January 24, 2008 at 11:58 am
Yay for ethical publishing! We do this too.
It’s great to have a community of like-minded publishers and publishers’ services in Australia, all the members of which are keen to ensure that the industry is accountable, environmetally aware, and looking after its artists.
cheers
Leticia