Voices from the Savannah: An Innovative Approach to Self-Publishing

‘Voices from the Savannah’ is a prestigious ‘Coffee Table’ book featuring many of the most important opinions involved in East African Wildlife conservation such as Dame Jane Gooda ll and Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick. The author, Gary Roberts, considered it vital that the book was bilingual in English and Swahili, so that the message could reach the widest audience of those capable of making a significant difference to the present catastrophic losses of wildlife numbers and habitat. Few publishers capable of producing the quality of book required, were even willing to consider backing a book with bi-lingual text, no matter how outstanding the photographs or significant the ‘Voices’ gathered together for this volume. This lead us to seek alternative approaches to Book Design, Publication, Sponsorship, Marketing and Distribution, using a combination of the very latest technologies available via the self-publish ing route. This paper describes the innovative online workflows used, with the Author based in Manchester, the Editor in Surrey, the Translator in Tanzania and the Book Designer on a Greek Island, combined with the advantages now available for short digital print runs and longer Offset Litho runs to massively reduce costs per book and ensure it’s vital message reaches the widest possible audience and also can provide additional publicity and profits to help fund the major wildlife charities involved.

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Graham Diprose

Gary Roberts

Amalia Toyas

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 44-50

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[0001]Speos Institute London & Paris

13 Heathfield Drive

Redhill, Surrey, UK

[0002]Speos Institute London & Paris

Apt 31, 384 Chester Road

Manchester, UK

[0003]Digiarts

UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.8

SO-VID: 29f75a38-84da-4382-bc6a-7454002115c4

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] BBC 2015 ‘Ten years’ to save Africa’s wildlife BBC World Service 22 September http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0336bj9 20 April 2017

[2] Blurb 2007-2017 Blurb Books UK http://www.blurb.co.uk 20 April 2017

[3] T. Burrows 2015 Voices from the Savannah: Poignant images show fragile existence of Africa’s wildlife which could face extinction within years due to money-hungry poachers Daily Mail 22 September http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3242343/Voices-Savannah-Poignant-images-fragile-existence-Africa-s-wildlife-face-extinction-years-monev-hungry-poachers.html 20 April 2017

[4] G. DiproseM. Seaborne 2013 Back to paper? An alternative approach to conserving digital images into the twenty-third century J. P. BowenS. KeeneK. Ng Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture. 57 72 Springer Series on Cultural Computing

[5] G. DiproseM. Seaborne 2011 An alternative approach to conserving digital images into the 23^rd century J. P. BowenS. DunnK. Ng EVA London 2011: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts UK 6-8 July 132 138 Electronic Workshops in Computing, BCS

[6] G. Roberts 2015 Voices from the Savannah. Blurb Books http://www.blurb.com/b/7285529-voices-from-the-savannah 20 April 2017

[7] G. Roberts 2015 Voices from The Savannah: Gary Roberts’ stunning photos of African wildlife The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11876892/Voices-from-The-Savannah-Gary-Roberts-stunning-photos-of-African-wildlife.html 20 April 2017

[8] G. Roberts 2016 Voices from the Savannah. Blurb, Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Savannah-Gary-Roberts/dp/1367356970 20 April 2017

[9] F. Simion 2014 In the Pursuit of Light. Blurb Books. http://www.blurb.co.uk7b/5514602-in-the-pursuit-of-light 20 April 2017

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