Thursday, August 16, 2012

Publishing Perspectives

Provocateur John Reed reflects on the decade in publishing based on his experience publishing his 9/11 Orwell satire Snowball's Chance in 2002 and again in 2012.
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Authors, in particular, now have more opportunities to get their books into the world and generate an audience for them, though this is not without compromise.
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With rumors swirling that Apple is a possible sponsor of the ex-Orange Prize in the UK, we ask how do you feel about the possibility. Good? Bad? Indifferent?
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Chinese publishing is on a roll with 370,000 titles published in 2011, up 12.5%, with 48 selling 1m+ copies. Total revenue hit $229 bn, up 18%.
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From Jaipur to Melbourne to Edinburgh, Word Alliance aims to help top international book festivals lobby for government funding and to spread best practices.
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From the Archives:
As India becomes increasingly globalized, readers are snapping up new spirituality, self-help and diet books — many of them inspired by ideas from overseas.
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