The internet is dead! Long live the book: Underground publishing house 5ever
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This weekend in Ōtepoti Dunedin small presses and independent publishers from around Aotearoa gather to share and exchange at Small Press Fest. The festival reflects a move among younger creatives away from the internet towards community, focusing on the empowerment of making your own printed media. There’s also an eye on sustainability with presses more likely to be printing small numbers of books themselves and using recycled paper - rather than sending off PDFs to China for mass production shipping. The printing press currently working on a book about Small Press Fest 2023 and 2024, as well as the recent upsurge in independent publishing in Aotearoa, is Pōneke ‘underground publishing house,’ 5ever Books.
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