Earlier this week - and fresh from the Manly Writers' Festival - we took part in a debate on a familiar theme: print vs digital.
It quickly became clear that the premise doesn’t quite hold.
Digital is unmatched in reach, which was the main point Team Digital made. It is fast, accessible, and everywhere.
But print does something different.
It’s where value settles.
Readers might discover content digitally, but the books they keep, revisit, gift, and build their lives around are still overwhelmingly physical.
That’s not nostalgia. It’s behaviour.
At Fair Play Publishing, we see it every day; at festivals, in bookshops, and in the quiet choices readers make about what they bring into their lives.
Impact isn’t just about reach.
It’s about what stays.
And with that in mind, here are three new books we’ve published this month. They are stories we believe will stay with readers long after the first read.
- Jumping Jack by Garry Jack with Adam Hawse
- Betrayal by J S Ayliffe
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Home, Forever by Anna Dombkins
If you’re looking for something to read, reflect on, or pass on to someone else, these are books designed to be kept.
P.S. By the way, Team Print (of which we were a part) won!