On 8 September 2010, in the foyer of the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University, beneath the beautiful ‘Alpha and Omega’ stained-glass window created by Leonard French and connoting humankind’s endless striving for achievement, Monash University ePress became Monash University Publishing. It was very appropriate that the press should be launched by Barry Jones, author of Sleepers Wake! (1982), the ground-breaking and prescient work on the need for societies to adapt to the coming information revolution; chair of Senator Kim Carr’s Book Industry Strategy Group; and long-time advocate of more ambitious education and social policy.