few days ago fell into our hands an interesting booklet entitled What is the book? Heterodox musings of Popular Editorial, written by a group of French writers among them is A. Schiffrin and Eric Hazan. The book, whose original title is Le livre: Que Faire? , was released in France in 2008 and reviewed a number of issues on the status and problems of the world the book, based on data from the book market situation in France, but the general analysis is perfectly transferable to the English market.
it extracts a number of considerations, as a tasting:
· To judge by the number of doctors who care, the book is not any good.
· Of what it is today is to save the "book", considered as a single homogeneous category. Now we all know that reality is another. On the one hand, a number of books that are industrial products made following the rules of marketing, and marketed primarily with the support of major existing normal channels throughout the country.
• If the mainstream media and large publishing groups are in the hands of the allies of Sarkozy, what is the alternative? Here the existence of independent publishing is crucial.
• The fact that some newspapers and publishers belong to independent foundations, nonprofit, or cooperative, it seems the best way to preserve the political and cultural autonomy.
· interesting chapter on copyright, which reproduces a text by Victor Hugo wrote in 1878, which has no waste, and raised the limits of this right. We imagine what would have said if at the time of collection societies work and the Internet.
· The ups and downs that affect the economy of the book forces us to radically rethink aid devices, both nationally and regionally.
distribution • The machine has its own criteria works bypassing much of the independent booksellers and publishers.
• In regard to the overproduction: What time is passed to the "valid range" to "unhealthy profusion?
· Before, suppliers of libraries could agree to a discount that reached up to 20% or 25%, which gave an absolute advantage to large wholesalers at the expense of publishers, who could not afford. Today, the discount is limited to 9%.
In summary, an interesting book, essential and mandatory reading for all professionals in the world of books, including of course, librarians. We welcome with joy and admiration for the emergence of such books in Spain, coinciding with the release of two new titles in the collection Types Mobile Trama Editorial. Is it coincidence that both initiatives are published by independent publishers?
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