News from the Collective

The cost of open access books: six years on

In 2020, we had published over 170 titles, at a rate of between 24–30 books per year. Now we are approaching our 500th publication and we publish between 55–70 books per year: a more than 100% increase. Here we reflect on how this has been achieved.

Exploding Cinema

What might cinema look like without programmers, funding bodies, cultural gatekeepers or even conventional cinemas? In this episode, we discuss BOOM! The Exploding Cinema and the New London Underground with filmmaker, writer and longtime Exploding Cine…

How Traditional Water Wisdom Could Solve Modern Problems

In our rapidly changing world, water – the excess or lack of it – is perhaps a greater concern than ever before. Stephanie Kampf’s open access book, Hydrology for Sustainability, introduces these problems, and crucially, the ways they are being solved.