Peter Carey's Archive and the Australian Literary Field

[...]she redesigned the cover image of the eight novels that Carey had previously published. [...]in 2002, she was named young designer of the year, winner for the best designed cover of the year, and co-winner for the best designed literary fiction book for the 50th Australian Publishers Association Book Design Awards (Wyndham 19). The added 'literary value' is socialised and agreed upon through a series of contracts which carry cultural, economic and legal weight, entered into by a multiplicity of agents including the author himself, the editor, the publisher, the State Library of Victoria, journalists, individual collectors, and academics. The bookseller holds that he is disinterested in his disapproval of the Border Mails decision to rule out the saleability of 'his' news, implicitly claiming that it is Australian literary culture and its renowned author that everyone should support. [...]individual struggles over the value of materials of the archive-in-the-making results in an increase in the assumed value of the literary work and its creator.