Scribe Publications: 214 books
The New Front Page
new media and the rise of the audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
A provocative, timely account of the changing face of journalism from a pioneer of the new-media revolution
For a long time, media organisations have controlled the news, treating their audiences as products for advertisers. Yet as journalism has moved online and behind paywalls, the public...
What's Next in Journalism?
new-media entrepreneurs tell their stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
For the first time in human history, most people in developed countries are able to publish their news and thoughts to the world within a few minutes of deciding to do so. Meanwhile, the big industrial-scale media organisations are in decline, and at the same time there is a new blog, website, or...
The Road to Ruin
how Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
WINNER OF THE 2017 AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS, GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE 2016 MELBOURNE PRESS CLUB LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
‘There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.’
–Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015
Abbott’s performances...
Tall Ships and Tall Tales
a life of dancing with history
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Over the last 40 years, Jonathan King has brought history to life, re-enacting events such as the First Fleet’s voyage across the high seas to Botany Bay, the mutiny against ship’s captain William Bligh on the Bounty, Matthew Flinders’ troubled circumnavigation of Terra Australis, Ernest Shackleton’s...
Rainbow Pie
a redneck memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Rainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America’s most taboo subject — social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe Bageant uses Maw, Pap, Ony Mae, and other members of his rambunctious Scots–Irish family to chronicle the often-heartbreaking post-war journey of 22...
by Stan Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity.
When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country’s flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed...
The Great Multinational Tax Rort
how we’re all being robbed
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Enough is enough
In 2011, Amazon paid an effective tax rate of 0.5 per cent on its UK earnings of £3.35 billion.
In 2013–14, Apple Australia paid around $80 million in income tax on revenue of over $6 billion.
Multinational corporations have avoided trillions of dollars of tax over the...
by Ian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The Australian car industry is almost 120 years old, and has become part of the nation’s industrial and social fabric. With protection from the federal government in the early years, and co-investment more recently, the industry thrived, and dragged Australia out of the farm era and into the ranks...
Sideshow
dumbing down democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
‘After spending much of my life dedicated to the serious craft of politics, I have to admit that I am distressed by what it is becoming. Under siege from commercial pressures and technological innovation, the media are retreating into an entertainment frame that has little tolerance for complex...
The Paula Principle
how and why women work below their level of competence
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
An expert on innovation and work argues that many highly capable women are not being recognised, and that this harms businesses, societies, and individuals alike.
Whereas The Peter Principle, a four-million–copy bestseller from the 1960s, argued that most (male) workers will inevitably be...
On Offence
the politics of indignation
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
A lively and passionate defence of reasoned debate
Everyone has taken and given offence; anyone who claims they haven’t is either lying or uniquely tolerant. Yet in recent years, offence has become more than an expression of annoyance — it’s now a form of political currency. Politicians...
The Unseen Anzac
how an enigmatic explorer created Australia’s World War I photographs
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND HISTORY BOOK AWARD
The previously untold story of an extraordinary man and a great war photographer.
Cameras were banned at the Western Front when the Anzacs arrived in 1916, prompting correspondent Charles Bean to argue continually...
Under Cover
adventures in the art of editing
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Craig Munro began his blue-pencil adventures at the University of Queensland Press in 1971. Over the next thirty years, he became friend, counsellor, and occasionally foil to some of the country’s leading authors.
From a champagne-fuelled telegram to Patrick White to a run-in with Xavier...
An Untidy Life
What I Saw at the Media Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media.
Les Hinton was 15 when he first worked for Rupert Murdoch, and Murdoch’s “empire” was a single evening newspaper. In the next half century, he travelled the world...