Australia

Australia covers book printing done on Australian soil, for authors, small presses and self-publishers whose readers live in the same country. The work here is short-run and reprint work: a memoir for a local launch, a poetry collection for a reading, a family history for relatives spread across the states.

What marks this tag is distance. A book printed here reaches a reader in another state without customs, currency conversion or a months-long sea freight, and a second printing can follow a first within weeks.

BookPOD, Eureka Printing, Goliath Print and The Book Printing Company all work from Australia, which changes the practical shape of a print run. A title printed in Melbourne or Sydney reaches a Perth or Brisbane address without crossing a customs border, and a short run for a launch in one city can be reprinted for a second city without a new import cycle. That distance is the difference from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, where a book printed for a local readership still travels to Australian readers as freight. These four printers serve authors, small presses and self-publishers who want copies held and shipped inside the country, and they handle the trim sizes and paper stocks that Australian bookshops already shelve. Those after a printer on the same side of the ocean as the readers are usually chasing exactly that.