In Paris in the Latin Quarter, near Saint Michel, near the Sorbonne, publishers are not small, but independent, and certified as recently inaugurated day a very special library: Pippa, the "Librairie des éditeurs Indépendants." With only his name is Parisian bookstore define new market positioning and composition of its product portfolio, or as we say around here, "what will"; for that, independent. Could carry out a similar initiative in Spain, he wondered? Praise of the bookstore few days ago few months ago we went up a post in which we stated the need for preparing a sheet Map of Independent Publishing . On that sheet would occupy an important chapter the development of a selective distribution map of Independent Publishing. It is time, we said, that the English independent publishers with an alarming crisis of visibility, they decide to promote, sponsor and sponsor a slogan than as a network of libraries to ensure the continued presence of certain publishing houses and generated some militancy around them.
Just a few days before the questions of some colleagues, we shape a new entry in our vision of what "independent publishing ", well away from the concept "Small." If other countries like France or in most of Latin America there is a rigorous and effective activism around the "Independent Publishing" in Spain, or at least in Madrid, still on his back with the concept of "Small Publishers."
Apart from being outdated and leave a bad taste in my mouth, being almost offensive, the term "small press" we still creates serious questions: Is it "small publisher" by the billing? Why the cost? Why the low visibility in the media? Why vocation of insignificance and marginality? Why financial capacity? Why resources human and business? Why build a catalog? "By definition" against "or" front "to others?
Independent Publishers in Spain have sufficient identity to "become visible" as such and void. Could it be that it is independent of the cultural dimension? Why depth of the catalog? Why specialization in niche markets or micro-niche? Aesthetic commitment Why? Why your corporate responsibility to a sustainable model, an ally of the network of independent bookshops?
Certain publishers have no choice but to be defined as "small" because they have nothing to wield against others who are "great." The independents do not create any problem to live with the great, because they are of another species and are defined and act for themselves.
The Small Publishers Committee of the EMP for some time organized a conference on the problem analysis of the distribution. The conference was a success of public and union participation, making clear one of the most pressing concerns of independent publishing in this country, on the visibility factor of their labels. Well, is it not the time to get to work on the issue of visibility of IE in the outlets? Is it not time for Independent Publishers ruling on their status as such?
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