In a report published today the Arts Council agreed to:
- make activity that will increase national readership and sales of New Zealand literature a funding priority for Creative New Zealand’s grants and investment programmes
- make publishing proposals from individual writers, as well as those from publishing companies and collectives, eligible for funding
- make increased publishing subsidies available for literature in te reo or Pasifika languages, non-fiction work and publications about specific artforms
- maintain support for developing international markets for New Zealand literature.
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The biggest change here is a softening up for the funding of self published authors. Give it a decade and the bulk of funding will support self publishers under the argument that they are producing more Kiwi stories than traditional publishers. This idea would go against the world wide trend of the revival of traditionally published print books. This is a confused, unconfident funding review with unpredictable long term outcomes.
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