Untapped is a collaboration between authors, libraries and researchers, working together to identify Australia’s lost literary treasures and make them available once more

The project is digitising culturally important out-of-print Australian novels, histories, memoirs, poetry and more. They’ll be licensed into public libraries as well as being made available for sale as ebooks.

It will help create a new income source for Australian authors with out-of-print books and provide employment to arts workers affected by COVID, who are being hired to assist with proofreading. It will also support vital research into the economic value of out-of-print rights for authors, the value of libraries’ book promotion efforts, and the relationship between library lending and sales.

Find out more, watch the official launch, and find out how you can get involved by heading to Untapped‘s website.