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reveal that Polish workers in everyone is going to get kicked
Harpers Scottish outposts out. She added that we are
were going back home as working on it, and that
uncertainty over whether they concerns from business over
would be allowed to stay in the the status of European workers
UK post-Brexit mounted, and were at the top of the tree,
their earnings were hit by the absolutely understood.
falling pound. The departures DK ceo Ian Hudson, on
were impacting on the costs, the panel, revealed that out Ian Hudson (left) and Stephen Lotinga
efficiency and viability of that of 500 DK staff in the UK, freedom of movement. I want in publishing were affected by
business now. Not giving 81 held European passports, the right to be able to offer a job Brexit, and that 43% of the
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impact UK businesses and minister Theresa May to wherever they are from. trade came from overseas.
jobs, Redmayne said. guarantee a right to remain Hudson added that the As the debate ended,
Rosa Wilkinson, director of to European staff was weaker pound, prompted by Lotinga called for a show of
stakeholder engagement for inhuman. He added later Brexit, had significantly hands from the 100-plus
trade policy at the Department that the Government had a increased the cost of printing audience: not a single person
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Guantanamera: a new catalogue of Cuban books
The London Book Fair sees the debut
of the catalogue of Guantanamera, a
publishing house founded by Enrique
Parrilla, ceo of Seville-based
publishing house Lantia, along with
his Lantia colleague Chema Garcia
and Daniel Pinilla, a journalist who is
serving as publishing director of the
company, writes Ed Nawotka. The Daniel Pinilla and Enrique Parrilla
publisher, which launched officially at
the Havana Book Fair this February, is putting 46 new
Cuban books up for rights sales for the first time.
Guantanamera was born after Pinilla spent the first three
months of 2016 in Cuba writing his own travel book,
Hasta El Mojito Siempre (Samarcanda), and discovered
an untapped well of literary talent.
Two or three years ago we offered a consulting service
and noticed that the quality of the work coming from
Cuba was stunning and there was a lot of talent there,
said Parilla. But there were a lot of challenges: logistics,
banking and access, and there was no public internet
access until last year. But we made it happen.
The catalogue includes fiction, poetry, essays, sociological
books, theatre, science fiction and humour. The books are
published in Spain in Spanish for global distribution.
Ruby Wax launches Frazzled Cafs at M&S
TV personality and author Ruby Wax held a mindfulness
moment at Olympia yesterday to mark the launch of her
Frazzled Caf at Marks & Spencer stores. Her photocall
included big hitters Tom Weldon, ceo of Penguin Random
House UK, and LBF director Jacks Thomas.
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The initial response after we
launched the company was humbling.
The Cubans were so delighted that
a foreign publishing house was
finally delving deeper into the
literary community, said Pinilla.
Typically, the only books that are
widely published in Cuba are prize
winners or books promoted by the
government. Private publishing
houses are all-but-nonexistent, due to a lack of
resources, they said.
Parrilla and Pinilla say that there is a community of 70
to 80 established writers who are potentially world class
and deserve international attention. They cite Historias
del Ms Ac by Daniel Burguet, a book of dark short
stories, as just one example of a book that could attract
a top publisher abroad. Another is Eduardo del Llanos
La Calle de la Comedia, a satire of Cuban society. The
books tend to be dark, but funny, said Pinilla. We
think the stories are fresh and differenttheres no
internet, so reading is entertainment. The books reflect
this. When it comes to writing, different is attractive.
Cuba is both different and attractive. We think other
publishers will agree.
M&S Cafs will host fortnightly talk-in sessions where
people can meet to talk and share their stories. The events
will take place after hours, and will be led by trained
volunteer facilitators. Frazzled Caf was trialled in M&S
offices and stores last year.
Frazzled Caf is a not for profit and soon to be registered
charity created by Ruby Wax and run by Elizabeth Morrison
and Anna DOnofrio. Its name comes from Waxs
bestselling book A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled.
Wellcome shortlist
The shortlist for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize was
announced at the London Book Fair yesterday.
How To Survive a Plague (Picador), David France (USA)
When Breath Becomes Air (The Bodley Head), Paul
Kalanithi (USA)
Mend the Living (MacLehose Press), Maylis de Kerangal
(France) trans Jessica Moore
The Tidal Zone (Granta), Sarah Moss (UK)
The Gene (The Bodley Head), Siddhartha Mukherjee (USA)
I Contain Multitudes (The Bodley Head), Ed Yong
The winner will be announced on 24 April.
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Rights round up
Araminta Hall, a Richard and Judy
selection with Everything and Nothing
(HarperCollins), is moving to Century
UK with a wonderfully dark and
twisty psychological thriller, to be
published in the US by Daphne
Durham at MCD (Farrar, Straus).
Selina Walker at Century pre-empted
UK and Commonwealth rights in Our
Kind of Cruelty through Lizzy Kremer
at David Higham (DHA). Walker said:
Told from the point of view of a very
damaged, but outwardly successful
man, Our Kind of Cruelty is a story
of sexual obsession which begins as Sophie Hannah
a love affair and ends in murder as
the reader is asked to judge along with a jury who exactly is responsible
for the tragedy that ensues. DHA has also sold Norwegian, Spanish and
Lithuanian rights, with offers coming in from several other territories.
Hall teaches creative writing at New Writing South in Brighton.
Rowan Cope at Scribner has struck a six-figure pre-empt for debut novel
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips, also signed by Knopf in the US in a
major two-book deal. The authors agent is Suzanne Gluck at William
Morris Endeavor; the UK deal was negotiated by WMEs Elizabeth
Sheinkman. The novel is set in the remote Russian community of
Kamchatka, where two young girls go missing. Cope said: Julia Phillips
has written an extraordinary, beautiful and unforgettable novel. Phillips
29, is a Pushcart-nominated writer who spent a year on a Fulbright grant
in Kamchatka doing on-the-ground research, including a 583-mile dog
sled race and a stint herding reindeer.
Maria Rejt for Mantle in the UK and Amy Einhorn for Flatiron Books in
the US have jointly acquired La fille qui lisait dans le Metro by Christine
Fret-Fleury, after winning a four-way auction conducted by Judith
Becqueriaux at Denoel. Rejt said: Christine has written a life-affirming
novel for our times about the transformative power of literature and the
bonds people forge through their mutual love of books. Like The Reader
on the 6.27 and The Elegance of the Hedgehog it appeals both to the
readers heart and soul.. Einhorn said: This book has been charming
publishers all over the world, with good reason, so we very much expect
it to be the book in the fall of 2018.
Bonnier Zaffre had an international hit on its hands on day one of the fair with
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. The novel is based on the true
story of Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was forced to tattoo the numbers on
his fellow victims arms that would mark them for survival, and who used the
infinitesimal freedom of movement his position gave him to exchange jewels
and money taken from murdered Jews for food to keep others alive. Bonnier
Zaffre has world rights, and is publishing alongside sister company Echo
Publishing in Australia. Rights director Ruth Logan has accepted pre-empts in
Germany (Piper), Poland (Marginesy), and the Netherlands (HarperCollins);
an auction is under way in Italy, and further offers are coming in.
Georgina Morley at Pan Macmillan has won an eight-way auction to sign
Francesca Stavrakopoulous God: An Anatomy. Pan Mac has UK and
Commonwealth rights from Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit, for
publication in 2019. The book is on submission in the US; rights have gone
to Piper in Germany, and there are auctions in other European territories.
Stavrakopoulou is Professor of the Hebrew Bible and ancient religion at the
University of Exeter and the presenter of the BBC documentary The Bibles
Buried Secrets. Morley said that the proposal was brilliantly donefiercely
intelligent and academically rigorous, but also utterly gripping.
Andrew Franklin at Profile has bought How Democracy Ends by David
Runciman, signing world rights through Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge
& White. Publication will be in spring 2018. Franklin said: Will Brexit
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kill democracy? Will Trump? And
would we recognise it, if it were
happening around us? David
Runciman is far too smart to make
facile predictions about what is
happening. But he is also the best
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possible guide there could be to
understanding what is happening
now and why it might be so
dangerous. Runciman is professor
of politics at Cambridge University
and head of the department of
politics and international studies.
Julia Phillips HarperCollins US and UK have
announced two further Hercule
Poirot continuations by Sophie Hannah, whose previous novels starring
Agatha Christies detective were The Monogram Murders (2014) and
Closed Casket (2016). David Brawn, publisher of estates at HarperFiction,
signed the deal with Agatha Christie Limited. Both previous novels are
distributed in more than 100 territories and have been translated into
some 34 languages. Publication will be in 2018 and 2020.
Katy Follain at Quercus has bought world rights in Not That Kind of
Love by Clare and Greg Wise from Caroline Wood at Felicity Bryan
Associates. The book is based on Clare Wises blog, which she started
when she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013, and charts the highs
and lows of the last three years of her life. Her brother, the actor Greg
Wise, took over the story when she became too weak to type. Follain
said: When everyone at Quercus read the manuscript of Not That Kind
of Love, the response was unanimous: we all fell in love with Clares
positivity, courage and energy, which exude from every page.
Joseph Zigmond at William Collins has signed a significant deal for Hit
Refresh by Microsoft ceo Satya Nadella, announced some time ago by
HarperCollins US. The book is billed as a story of corporate change and
reinvention as well as of Nadellas journey from childhood in India to a
position at the top of the giant technology company. Zigmond said: Hit
Refresh will be a fascinating roadmap for how companies, industries or
communities can be rerouted. Nadellas agent is James Levine of Levine
Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency.
Clara Farmer at Chatto has won a five-way auction for a debut work of
history, The Sharp Family by Hester Grant, having discovered while
bidding that the book concerned ancestors of her paperback partner,
Victoria Murray-Browne at Vintage. Chatto has UK and Commonwealth
rights through Patrick Walsh at PEW Literary. Grants interested was
piqued on viewing Zoffanys Sharp family portrait in the National
Portrait Gallery. Farmer said: This promises to be a fabulous portrait of
late 18th-century industry, medicine, religion, politics and music to rival
Zoffanys own masterpiece of this multi-talented (and mutually
supportive) family. And the story is made even happier by knowing that a
Sharp descendent is now part of its publishing story.
On the eve of the London Book Fair, Chicken House announced that
rights director Elinor Bagenal had sold The Fandom by Anna Day in 12
territories in four weeksmaking the novel the companys fastest selling
rights title. The Fandom is a YA fantasy adventure in which fans get stuck
in the world of their favourite story. Author Anna Day was shortlisted for
the Times/Chicken House Childrens Fiction Competition. The original idea
for the story was by Big Idea competition winner Angela McCann. Rights
sold: Australia (Scholastic Australia), Brazil (Record), Canada (Scholastic),
Czech Republic (Baronet), France (Pocket Jeunesse), Germany (Chicken
House Deutschland), Italy (DAgostini), The Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff),
Romania (RAO), Spain inc World Spanish (RBA), Turkey (Yabanci), US
(Scholastic). TV and film rights are represented by The Blair Partnership.
Chicken House publishes The Fandom in the UK in October.
 London show daily
Quantum part 2: digital opportunities and detox
At the London Book Fairs pre-conference, Quantum, a
whos-who of tech practitioners took to the stage to offer
insight, ideas and best practices to the audience of industry
professionals.
Here are some of the highlights and choice quotes.
In a session entitled The Fountain of Youth: Fandom
and the Power of YA Audiences, Watttpads Ashleigh
Gardner, head of partnerships, noted that the company had
done a deal with Turner television to adapt several Wattpad
horror stories into shows. Horroras well as Muslim
romance and Riverdale fan fictionare hot trends.
There has never been a generation that is more literate
than today, said Gardner. Whats key is how they are
used to engage with all entertainment: it is to respond and
create themselves. They expect to be able to interact with
authors.
This sentiment echoed reports from several earlier panels
that had highlighted how the immense popularity of video
had led publishers to pursue more and more video
marketing strategies, be they through traditional
advertising or social media. Sara Lloyd, digital and
communications director at Pan Macmillan, touted the
companys Christmas ad campaign, which featured a series
of one-minute videos embedded in relevant media articles.
They got 40,000 completed views and a 12% click
through rate, she reportedthe average click through is
less than 5%.
Lisa Sharkey, senior vice president and director of
creative development for HarperCollins US, encouraged
publishers to use Facebook Live to broadcast author
content. It is intimate and direct. HarperCollins
broadcasts seven days a weekstarting with Motivational
Mondays and ending with Spiritual Sundayscovering a
different theme each day, typically for 15 to 45 minutes.
Market focus Poland opensslightly unsung
The Poland Market Focus opened yesterday at a packed
ceremony with, among others, Dariusz Jaworski, director
of the Polish Book Institute; Jacks Thomas, director of the
London Book Fair; Publisher Association ceo Stephen
Lotinga; Magdalena Gawin, deputy minister of culture and
national heritage; and Cortina Butler, literature director at
the British Council.
Jaworski said that the Polish Book Institute was
extremely happy to be Guest of Honour. As happy as,
it seemed, London Book Fair is to host them.
Poland is one of the great and, to my mind, slightly
unsung heroes of the publishing world, Thomas
commented. It has a rich cultural and literary heritage
with a cultural tradition that dates back to the 16th
century, and five Nobel Prize for Literature laureates, the
eighth highest in the world. Polish writing is a hidden gem,
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Since launch, the project has garnered 11 million views,
100,000 stars, 320,000 comments, and 290,000
reactions, she said. Erin Murray Manning, who works
in strategic partnership development for Facebook, added
that there were 230 million people connected to author
pages on Facebook and a further 120 million connected to
book pages.
Among various nuggets in a session with Bloomsbury
founder Nigel Newton and Dominque Raccah, publisher
and ceo of Sourceooks, was Newtons revelation that the
Harry Potter publisher had explored developing its own
e-reader in the US in 2005, one with two screens that
opened like a book. They had to give up as it was too
heavy, a failed experiment that cost several hundred
thousand dollars.
Enhanced ebooks dont work was a sentiment Raccah
expressed. It was a throwaway remark, but you sensed a
world of pain behind it.
Newton observed that the rise of robotics presented a
golden opportunity for publishing over a 30 to 50 year
timeframe: people would need a cheap form of
entertainment to fill the enormous amount of leisure they
would have.
In a second panel session, there was news from Nic
Bottomley at Mr Bs Emporium, which is publishing a
British version of Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, the fifth
title from the shops publishing spin-off. He observed that
young parents these days, digital natives themselves, were
ring-fencing screen free reading time with very young
children, almost as a digital detox.
Sharkey of HarperCollins US added that the pendulum
had swung too far toward digital, and it was affecting
peoples attention spans: Weve got a little off-balanced,
people cant focus on long-form.
and those who have yet to read a Polish book are in for a
treat! Lotinga agreed, describing the countrys literature
as not as well known as it should be.
The event closed with a trip to the stunning Polish
Pavilion, which features living pine trees, and will host over
40 events over the course of the fair.
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Whats in store for Spains book industry?
Luiz Carlos Conde Gaspar looks at the likely impact of changes in consumer
demographics and behaviour on the Spanish book industry
What are the results of great weather, social and outdoor
lifestyle and a Mediterranean diet? Longevity!
By the year 2036, half of the Spanish population will be
50+ years old, according to the projections of the National
Institute of Statistics (INE). The consumption dimension is
expected to be influenced by the changes in demographics
and shopping behaviour, however, it will come from a more
connected, health concerned and active generation.
Even with a remarkable economic improvement
following the crisis in 2008, the fertility rate in Spain
remains one of the lowest in Europe (1.3 children per
woman). On the other hand, at the top of the demographic
pyramid, people continue to live longer and are becoming
the largest part of the consumer market in the future. In
other words, Millennials turning into Oldennials!
When the life expectancy is, on average, 80 years for men
and 85 years for women, it is not surprising that the number
one aspiration for the future is to stay fit and healthy
(44%), followed by career prosperity (36%), spend more
time with family (36%) and travel more (33%). These
are the results from a Spanish lifestyle survey conducted in
more than 500 households. It appears that this self-
awareness correlates to being more connected and therefore
having more access to nutritional and health information.
Publishing houses in Spain are conscious of this trend,
and have been investing in new titles and authors within
the cookery, exercise and health/alternative therapy genres.
For instance, of the top 15 bestselling books in the
beverages/cookery genre, seven (shaded blue on the chart)
Top 15 beverages/cookery titles 2016
1 Cocina sana para disfrutar
2 Sabores de siempre
3 A mi manera
4 Torres en la cocina
5 Te cuento en la cocina
6 Grandes recetas para pequeos chefs
7 Smoothies. La solucin antioxidante. 66 recetas caseras
8 Mis recetas de cocina anticncer
9 Mis smoothies favoritos
10 Sper smoothies
11 Sucs verds
12 Simplsimo. El libro de cocina ms fcil del mundo
13 Cmetelo
14 La comida de la familia
15 Gua prctica para una alimentacin y vida anticncer
Source: Nielsen BookScan Spain
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Population ageing according to current life expectancy (Source: INE)
are about healthy food/natural juices and cancer
prevention food.
The internet has had a significant impact on many
industries, particularly when it comes to aggregating
consumers opinions. The Nielsen Global Confidence
tracking survey indicates 36% of Spanish consumers will
share his/her satisfaction or dissatisfaction online. While
81% of those surveyed declared they take more into account
a recommendation from a family member or friend; 59%
will consider what other people say online; and just 50%
what they can find on the publisher/manufacturer website.
Even without an official measurement in Spain, it is still
possible to infer that ebooks adoption might increase among
this group of people as e-readers, tablets and smartphones
decrease in price. According to Deloittes study in 2015,
Spain has one of the highest levels of global smartphone use
(88% penetration), only second to Singapore (92%).
Although it may appear counter-intuitive, in the middle
of the internet age, the future wont be all about online
shopping. Bricks and mortar shops will continue to have an
important role, as proximity, expertise and good offline
experience remain important to consumers. Spain has
approximately 4,000 independent book shops and more
than 200 book chains outlets; a fixed-price law for books
guarantees a more balanced competition among small and
big players.
This phenomenon of more active, connected and self-
aware senior people should be carefully analysed by the
Spanish publishing industry, as a way of developing a new
approach to older consumers. But not just the Spanish
book industrythis trend will not be unique to Spain,
likewise the Mediterranean diet!
Luiz Carlos Conde Gaspar is head of Nielsen Books Iberia and Latam
(luiz.gaspar@nielsen.com). For more information about Nielsen Book,
visit: www.nielsenbook.co.uk.
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Cory Doctorow unveils his latest publishing
On 27 January 2017, Donald
Trumps executive order
banning US entry for people
from seven Muslim-majority
nations threw Americas
immigration system into
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chaos: lawful permanent
residents were detained or sent
overseas; refugees and asylum-
seekers were turned away; and
families were separated.
That weekend, the American Cory Doctorow
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
announced that it had received more than $24 million in
donationssix times its annual intake from private donors. The
neoclassical model of economics predicts that human beings
will behave as rational economic actors, maximizing their
personal utility. But the ACLUs experience suggests people
place valueand will also spend moneyon things that are not
directly related to personal utility, but reflect their values.
This April, Tor (US) and Head of Zeus (UK) will publish
Walkaway, my first novel for adults since 2009. Its my
optimistic disaster novel, about people behaving kindly
towards one another in times of crisis, a countervailing
narrative to rebut all those stories in which disaster
precipitates barbarism, and where the failure of the
infrastructure is swiftly followed by marauders smashing
down your door and eating you.
When we are faced with a crisis and need to think fast,
we deploy the availability heuristic. Thats where we
treat things as likely outcomes because we can vividly
imagine them. The stories we consume are bound up with
this availability heuristic: if youve thrilled to dystopian
fiction where the few and the good battle the ravening
mob, then, when confronted with unprecedented crisis, that
fiction becomes a predictionwhen the blackout hits, you
assume your neighbours arent coming over with a covered
dish, theyre coming over with a shotgun.
Walkaway is about the opposite of this: a reality-inspired
tale of everyday bravery and selflessness drawn from the real
world of real disasters, which are always, always moments in
which humanity shines (and also, moments in which our
media focuses on the few aberrant episodes of bad conduct).
Walkaway has traditional publishers and will have a
traditional ebook edition. But Im going to sell that ebook in
a non-traditional way. Im launching an ebook store with
the book, a store that Ive privately developed for the past
three years, codenamed Shut Up and Take My Money
(SUATMM). SUATMM is what I like to call a fair trade
ebook store, in which the writer serves as a retailer.
There are many small, niche-oriented ebook stores serving
highly specific markets, but SUATMM is different. Its a
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ks?
experiment
retail platform that lets authors with traditional publishers
serve as retailers for their publishers, on the same terms as
Amazon, Kobo, Google, BN.com, Apple and other giants.
Those stores have resources no individual authorsave,
perhaps, the delightfully DRM-free JK Rowlingcan muster.
In particular, they can manage a seamless experience that no
indie bookstore can hope to match.
Buying an ebook from a website and side-loading it onto
your Kindle will never be as easy as buying it from the Kindle
store (though if the worlds governments would take the
eminently sensible step of legalizing jailbreaking, someone
could develop a product that let Kindles easily access third-
party stores on the obvious grounds that if you buy a Kindle,
you have the right to decide whose books youll read on it,
otherwise you dont really own that Kindle). But a bookstore
operated by an author has an advantage no giant tech
platform can offer: a chance to buy your ebooks in a way
that directly, manifestly benefits the author.

How do I support you?

In all the years that Ive made ebooks available through
unconventional means, such as Creative Commons licences,
my number one question from readers has been: How do I
pay you for this without making some digital monopolist
richer? I dont pretend that this is a concern of a large
proportion of the casual readership, but based on my data, it
is the most pressing concern for thoughtful, engaged
readersreaders who care about books like Walkaway.
Being my own retailer gets me a lot: it gets me up-to-the-
second data about whos buying my books and where. It gets
me money: once I take the normal 30 percent retail share off
the top, and the customary 25 percent royalty from my
publisher on the back-end, my royalty is effectively doubled. It
gives me a simple, fair way to cut all the other parts of the
value-chain in on my successbecause this is a regular retail
sale, my publishers get their regular share, likewise my agents.
It also gets me a new audience that no retailer or
publisher is targeting: the English-speaking reader outside
of the Anglosphere. Travel in Schengen and you will
quickly learn that there are tens of millions of people who
speak English as a second (or third, or fourth) language,
and nevertheless speak it better than you ever will. Yet
there is no reliable way for these English-preferring
readers, who value the writers original words, unfiltered
by translation, to source legal ebooks in English.
Amazon and its competitors typically refuse outright to
deal with these customers, unable to determine which
publisher has the right to sell to them. Most publishing
contracts declare these nominally non-English-speaking
places to be open territory where in theory all of the
books publishers may compete, but in practice, it means
none of them do. Bio

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Even in the Anglosphere, readers are often left to
their own devices. Told that Amazon US cant sell the
book to them, they must discover for themselves
where to find the book on Amazon UK. But when I
am acting as my own retailer, I can easily determine
who gets the publishers end of the payment: in the
US and Canada, its Tor; in the UK and
commonwealth, its Head of Zeus. Everywhere
elseall that open territoryits me. For the other
territories, its a simple matter of calculating the
remittances, and sending payments and
statements to my other publishers, just like any other
retailer. The difference being that I am in control of the money,
rather than my publishers sending me 25% of that money
back, twice a year, in the form of a royalty check.
A new reader experience
After my experiences organizing name-your-price ebook bundles
with the Humble Bundle people (raising $2M in voluntary
payments for a couple dozen backlist titles) I had a realization:
most ebook readers were already living in a name your price
worldone in which the only two prices they were allowed to
quote were zero, and full retail. But people are kind. People are
good. Homo Economicus is a lie. People want to
do the right thing. And when the name-your-price
offer is couched in terms of being a good person,
people open their hearts and their wallets.
SUATMM has lots of bells and whistles. And I
think fair trade ebooks are an idea whose time has
come. As I was preparing this column, I learned that
my UK publisher, Head of Zeus, had been developing
BookGrail, its own author-centric ebook retail
platform, one that offers a very similar slate of terms,
with thousands of titles, and far more resources
than I could bring to bear on such a project.
Its an exciting moment! BookGrail is a platform Ill be
delighted to have my books on, even as I use SUATMM to
serve my own quirky needs: name your price, 100% DRM-
free, etc. But both platforms represent a way for readers who
care about the book trade, about authorial independence,
about their money going preferentially to the people who
make the art they love, to express those preferences.
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Maria Pallante: Copyright heavyweight
In January the Association of American
Publishers (AAP) appointed former US Register
of Copyrights Maria Pallante as president and
CEO, succeeding Tom Allen, who retired.
Chances are you recognize Pallantes name,
writes Andrew Richard Albanese. Pallante is a
copyright policy heavyweight who, in the
words of Elseviers YS Chi, chairman of the
AAP board of directors, has earned the deep
respect of Congress, as well as intellectual
property experts around the world.
Pallante comes to AAP from the US Copyright Maria Pallante
Office, where she delivered numerous policy
studies on thorny topics facing authors and publishers in the
digital age, including orphan works and mass digitization.
Most prominently, she gave a set of lectures, which she
dubbed The Next Great Copyright Act, that helped to
spur the recent congressional review of US copyright law.
Pallante has also cultivated deep ties to the entertainment
industry, where she was seen as a strong ally. In October, when
newly installed Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden abruptly
removed Pallante from her post, the music industry in particular
rose up in protest, with a number of editorials and articles
London show daily
suggesting that her ousting was a Google-led
conspiracy. It wasnt. But the outcry speaks to
how deeply the music business valued her work.
Pallante also has her critics. The tech
industry, public watchdog groups and the
library community, for example, all viewed
Pallantes leadership of the Copyright Office
as biased toward the content industries, out
of step with the public and increasingly at
odds with the courts.
Last September, a month before she left
the Copyright Office, the advocacy group
Public Knowledge issued a scathing report
on Pallantes leadership, dubbing the office a captured
agency, and noting that Pallante viewed copyright owners
as the agencys real constituency, rather than the public.
Still, her deep expertise in IP policy makes her a perfect
fit for AAP, as copyright reform begins to pick up steam in
both the US and abroad. She may never be as colourful an
advocate for publishers as, say, the legendary MPAA
(Motion Picture Association of America) chairman Jack
Valenti was for Hollywood. But make no mistake, her
name certainly rings out.
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Whats hot? Whats not?
Michael Bhaskar examines how ebooks can provide a corrective to the fashion-
conscious world of print books
Creative industries are driven by fashion.
Whats hot, whats in, what people want right
nowits the oxygen that courses through the
system of anything driven by taste. Publishing
of course is no exception and something
everyone knows, but sometimes glosses over, is
the extent to which publishing decisions are
dictated by whats in fashion. This is true
whether you are publishing scientific papers,
celebrity memoirs or fiction in translation. At
any given times certain topics or authors will
seem to have greater traction than others. Michael Bhaskar
So far so obvious. For some time Ive been
interested in how this plays out in the digital
The digital
market. How do the fashions of print play out market is at
when mapped onto ebooks?
To some extent they are magnified. Ebooks
once both more
are quicker to publish than print, and so people and less driven
can latch onto a trend and follow it with greater
alacrity. There is also the role of self-publishing: by fashion than
nimble independent authors can follow trends print.
at lightning speed, writing and publishing at a
rate far beyond that of the traditional industry. Hence we see
the spread of books with girl in the title go farther and faster
in digital. For a good while it seemed that really was a
shibboleth to the ebook charts: there are many examples we
will all be familiar with, and many more we probably wont be.
Either way its been a glaringly obvious fashion.
Certain cover styles, titles or genres have quickly cemented
their place in the ebook world and its clear that here, in this
respect, the ebook market is even more driven by local and
short terms fashions than print. This is the view that Ive often
encountered recently: that ebooks have more than their fair
share of me-tooism, that success in digital is a matter of
latching on to obvious trends and exploiting them to death.
Yet this is only part of the story. While it has elements of truth
it ignores how the print market has changed, and how in some
respects that market has been narrowed, and become more
fashion and hype driven than ever.
The key scarcity in publishing today is in retailers slots and
publicity opportunities. Both are in painfully short supply for
any publisher, and yet both are critical to the success of a book.
The narrowed windows, in respect to both, have a knock on
effect in terms of the kind of books that get commissioned.
Essentially publishers can only acquire books they believe will
stand a good chance of hitting key retailer placements. If
Waterstones, WH Smith or the supermarkets wont take a
book, its chance of large scale success is radically diminished.
So whatever they believe is in fashion (via that curious ineffable
process of fashion dissemination) will be commissioned for. If
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the principal buyers and literary editors want a
certain kind of book, that book will be
acquired. This is the central truth governing the
entire contemporary publishing environment.
Publishers still routinely take large risks on
different kinds of books. Yet these books are
mainly in some sense fashionable books. Taking
big risks and bucking fashions are very different
things. Publishers will drop large money on a
risky new debut, but chances are that debut will
be from a zeitgeisty author in a zeitgeisty
genre. The pressure for chances to sell the book
exacerbates this. It means that an editor will face
a huge struggle to acquire books that sales and
marketing dont believe will work. While this has
always been true, it only becomes more intense.
The number of key accounts is not going up. The
competition is constantly growing. The internet
provides an important new channel, but
traditional media are a losing battle.
In contrast, the ebook market is relatively
freer to try new and more, well, unfashionable
things. Because even if the book trade as a whole gets caught
up in the latest trend, one important group is often and
surprisingly imperviousreaders.
Outside the bubble of hype are authors in various genres
quietly working away with large and valuable readerships.
They are producing books and working in areas that might
raise eyebrows or even a hint of derision at many acquisitions
meetings. Yet readers still love it, they will keep coming back for
more. In this respect then I think the ebook market can buck
mainstream fashion; and the entire book market is all the better
for it.
So-called midlist writers and niche genres were once the
bread and butter of commercial publishing, but too often
theyve been left languishing at the expense of the modish. This
is perfectly understandable, indeed common sense, given the
difficulties in getting a book to market. But it highlights a
valuable and undersung role for the ebook market: in
ensuring that these still-vibrant and still-popular areas can and
do flourish. It may not be the world of hot auctions, smart
proofs and splashes in the Sunday papers. But for millions and
millions of readers this is what reading is all about: escapist,
addictive and too often overlooked by the latest in-thing.
All publishing is driven to some extent by fashion. The digital
market is peculiar: it is at once both more and less driven by
fashion than print. 
Michael Bhaskar is Co-Founder of Canelo, the digital publisher, and is
author of Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Excess. He can
be found on Twitter @michaelbhaskar.
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eBookstore Its a huge honour to be the
Market Focus country at the
London Book Fair, and a great
opportunity to spread the
word about your countrys
literary and publishing scene.
That said, writes Chad W
Post, this single event isnt
enough to cause English-
language publishers to start
translating and promoting a
significant number of books Chad Post
from a given country, so here
are a few tips to help spur
Nothing beats
translation success. meeting people
1. Programme funding
on their home
Although a commercial press turf, where you
is likely to pay an American
author an advance that far
can get a better
exceeds what they pay an sense of countrys
international author and
translator combined for a
book culture.
particular book, all publishers like to point to the added

Keeping readers
cost of paying a translator as one of the reasons why they
just cant publish more translations. As suspect as this
complaint might be, there is a strong correlation between

in touch with the success of a country getting its authors books

translated into English, and whether or not they fund these

global economic
translations. Of the 20 most translated countries from
2008-2016, 18 of them have funding schemes in place that
are relatively easy to apply for. Want to see more authors

and financial translated? Support them with funding.

Of course, just getting the books translated isnt enough.
Some publishers will bring out great works of international

issues. literature because of the prestige that comes along with that
act, but one key to survival for publishers is making sure
that as many books as possible actually sell. Make funds
available to publishers for author tours, or other
Available in print and promotional events. Look at it this way: a publisher deciding
between a little-known author with an outstanding work in
digital formats translation vs. a mediocre book by a known American
writer, most publishers are likely to go with the American
title. Promotion help from your countrys book centre can
PDF ePub Kindle Print help increase the odds of success. The Ramon Llull Institute
in Catalonia does this as well as anyone.
Learn more at
2. Editor (and translator) visits forge connections
bookstore.imf.org/pw217 Lack of familiarity with a countrys publishing scene and
literary history is a huge obstacle for publishers interested in
doing translations. As immensely helpful as it is to meet
I N T E R N AT I O N A L M O N E TA R Y F U N D representatives at book fairs like London, nothing beats
meeting people on their home turf, where you can get a
better sense of the breadth and idiosyncrasies of a particular

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su ccess
countrys book culture. South Korea, Estonia, Finland,
Poland, Catalonia and many other countries offer these sorts
of editorial trips. The ones that are the most effective are the
ones that supplement meetings with editors and rights agents

SCRATCHING OUT
with meetings with critics, authors, translators and
booksellersthe more perspectives provided, the better.

3. Map foreign publishers onto their American counterparts

Its not unusual when participating in an editorial trip to make is the
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comparisons between that countrys publishing houses and
the ones that you already know. Which house is the Knopf of
Estonia? Such comparisons may seem silly, but they can

coloring in
provide a valuable heuristic for sorting potential projects and
honing in on what would most fit a publishers particular
editorial vision. Looking for authors and titles presses have in
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Countries that have a vibrant literary scene with presses that
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Although you can help translators in a number of ways
training seminars, funding schemes, trips to meet with
authorstheres no predicting who will get interested in
learning a particular language, and whether or not they
will have the ambition, gumption and timing to influence
various editors and tastemakers. Obviously, languages
taught in high schools have a better chance of creating a
pool of potential translatorsbut this is about more than
simply understanding the language. To have success getting
more books translated into English, you need to have the August 2017 December 2017
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Rochester. Hes also the managing editor of the Three Percent website
and the author of The ThreePercent Problem: Rants and Responses on
Publishing, Translation, and the Future of Reading.

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GrippinG So what happened to the las

poiGnant, haunting, With the Fairs relentless focus

gritty, and bursting on the next big thing, its easy

to overlook the last big thing,
the big deals of recent years,
with realism. writes Neill Denny. Does
announcing a big deal at the
Fair guarantee success, or is it
Foreword Reviews
just a flash in the pan? We
went back to some of the
editors behind recent high-
profile signings to find out the
story of the deal, and what Tim Holman
has happened since.
In 2015 Paul Baggaley at Picador signed Everyone is
Watching by Megan Bradbury, who was on the UEA creative
writing course. This wasnt a standard deal as I had met the
author when talking to students at UEA, and was told by
everyone there that she was a star in the making, Baggaley
recalls, so I saw an early version and asked Megan to make
sure she instructed her agent to send it to me when she had
one. I dont know how many others saw
it from Sophie Lambert, but I was on it
from the start and keen to acquire.
Having said that, it was a slow process
to get our offer together as we wanted
to acquire world rights. This deal was
actually made just before LBF and we
announced it at the Fair.
Does being born in such a splash of
publicity help or hinder the
subsequent progress of the book? It
was a reasonably high profile deal, but wasntone where

POLAND
the publicity was about theauction or the advance. It
therefore was able to achieve its success organically,
through blurbs, bookseller support and reviews, says
Baggaley. It has certainly achieved great critical acclaim.
Wed have loved more prize recognition, but we have a very
good paperback plan with support from WH Smith Fresh
Talent and a decent Waterstones order, so fingers crossed.

heroic stories, epic reads

We have a great paperback package.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi was signed by Penguin, also in
2015, and was published in hardback by Viking in January.
Just last month the author was long-listed for the
prestigious Dylan Thomas prize, the most valuable literary
prize in the world for writers under 40.
Penguins acquiring editor Mary Mount saw the manuscript
Distributed by National Book Network, www.nbnbooks.com
just before the Fair and signed it at the Fair. What caught her
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When the deal was reported it was given a rumoured seven-

figure price tag, guaranteeing it would be in the spotlight. It

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Information Happy Meals
There are more of these than the number of
McDonalds restaurants across the United
States, more even than the number of towns
and cities in all 50 states, yet they are often
hidden in plain sight. The inconspicuous and
ubiquitous institution is the public library
as much a part of the US national landscape
as baseball diamonds, football fields and
strip malls.
The origins of the public library date back
to American colonial times. But three
centuries later, the public library has become Jill Hurst-Wahl
a now global instituteand the US has lost
its lead as library pacesetter. In a recent post on her
Digitization 101 blog, Jill Hurst-Wahl notes the creeping
spread of library deserts across the US, and calls for
librarians, authors and publishers to irrigate those deserts
with innovative approaches to information sharing.
Christopher Kenneally recently caught up with Hurst-
Wahl, a librarian and associate professor at the Syracuse
University School of Information Studies, to talk about the
state of public libraries in the US.
CK: Lets start with the basicsthe number of libraries in
the United States and how the country rates on a global
spectrum?
JHW: The American Library Association estimates there
are more than 119,000 libraries in the United States. That
seems like a lot. But when I compare that number to other
things, its not so many. The number of libraries in the
United States is more than there are McDonalds, which is a
statistic we frequently hear. But that doesnt resonate until
we recognise that the McDonalds restaurants are very
visible, and our public libraries are not so visible. When I
look at the list, I am just amazed at the number of libraries
that are available to book lovers around the world, but
then dismayed when I realised where the United States is
ranked. We ranked 62nd on the list.
CK: The other number thats important is how many
people those libraries serve?
JHW: My estimate is that a library in the United States
serves about 2,700 people. Thats a great number. But then
you think about what I call library deserts, where there
arent that many libraries servicing that many people.
CK: In Slovakia, theres one library for every 700 or so
population. Thats a big difference, no?
JHW: Thats a big difference. So, I did a calculation for
my own county, which is Onondaga County in New York
State, and just based on public libraries, not school or
academic libraries. That calculation gets me to 14,600
people per library. There are large sections of the country,
too, where people may not be near their public library.
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CK: Your argument in your Digitization
101 blog post is that libraries should stand
out more in the same way that we know
McDonalds is there because we can see
those golden arches. What are some things
youre thinking about? How can library
clientswho are the public, after allsee to it
that libraries do stand out more? And, what
can librarians do?
JHW: Lets think about McDonalds for a
second. We have them in our towns and
cities, in our airports, in our malls. But
thats not where libraries are. Libraries are
often in the central part of a city or a town on a main
road, but sometimes not. Sometimes theyre tucked away
wherever there is available land. They dont always have
flashy signage or any arrows pointing out where they are.
So first off, municipalities ought to consider locating
libraries in more high-traffic areas, such as in malls, in
airports, in train stations, places where people congregate,
where they have extra time and might be interested in
borrowing a book. Now, I can imagine some saying, But
Jill, you go to the airport, you borrow a book, youre
going to lose it. Think, though, if you could go to the
airport and do some research? Maybe have access to
digital resources, and yes, maybe download an ebook for
that flight?
CK: That idea gets to the heart of where libraries stand in
the 21st century. Theyre about much more than just books,
these are places for access to information of all kinds. Its
about literacy training, and public data; its about having
safe places where people of all backgrounds and of
incomes can feel that theyre welcome and are safe. Tell us
about your thoughts that libraries are much more than
about books?
JHW: In todays world, we need places where people are
safe to learn, safe to inquire, safe to have conversations. I
see safe places not as being safe from difficult
conversations, but being places that are safe to have those
conversations. I think libraries play an important role as
places that are safe for inquiry.
CK: If we return to the notion of looking at libraries as
we might look at McDonalds, perhaps we need a Happy
Library Mealan Information Happy Meal that would
get people seeing libraries in different and more essential
ways?
JHW: And there could even be a little prize or something
else that reminds you of this happy place called the library.
Christopher Kenneally hosts the weekly Beyond the Book podcast series
from Copyright Clearance Center. He can be reached at
chrisk@copyright.com. To listen to the full interview with Jill Hurst-Wahl,
visit www.BeyondTheBook.com.
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Improving accessibility in pu
Last year was an important step
in the road towards improving
accessibility in publishing. It
marked the coming into force of
the Marrakesh Treaty,
development of an updated
EPUB standard with added
accessibility refinements, an
audit of ebook platforms for
higher education, and a new
baseline for accessible
publishing. These new Emma House
initiatives, coupled with the
publication of a raft of guides for publishers who are keen to
improve their accessible publishing strategy, will hopefully lead,
not only to a more comprehensive offering of titles, but an engaged
supply chain that ensures the end user is able to fully enjoy the
functionality publishers are working hard to embed in their titles.
The Marrakesh Treaty
The Marrakesh Treaty came into force on 20 September 2016
with 75 countries now signed up. This WIPO treaty requires
ratifying countries to do two things: to provide a copyright
exception to allow print disabled people or organisations
supporting them to make a copy of a publication accessible; and to
permit international exchange of these copies. Various WIPO
member states, the UK included, already provide exceptions for
people with print disabilities; those that dont will be working
them into law. It remains to be seen, however, how the various
WIPO Member States include the UK deal with cross-border
exchange of accessible format copies in their national legislation.
From a publishers perspective it is essential to be able to rely on
trusted entities in order to ensure that appropriate checks and
balances are in place when it comes to published materials. An
example is the Accessible Books Consortiums Global Books
Service, which makes it easier for participating institutions to
search internationally for books in accessible formats, and to
exchange them across national borders, handling permissions and
providing reporting to rights holders. Efforts are underway
internationally to make sure that this international network of
authorised entities grows into a go to resource for managing the
cross-border exchange of accessible format copies.
EPUB 3.1
An EPUB Accessibility/EDUPUB Alliance Summit in 2016 brought
global publishers, institutions, platform and solution providers,
standardization and accessibility organisations, and content
distributors together to discuss how to advance the adoption and
use of e-textbooks and other digital learning materials by
improving interoperability and baseline capabilities with the
adoption of enabling technical standards.
This collaboration fed into EPUB 3.1the latest version of the
standard, which was approved in January 2017. This standard
adds the recommendation that all EPUB publications conform to
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Lifetime Achievement winner: Luiz Schwarcz
There is an often-told story about Brazilian
publisher Luiz Schwarcz, recently announced
as the winner of this years London Book Fair
Lifetime Achievement Award in International
Publishing, writes ngel Gurra-Quintana. In
1986, after quitting his job as editorial director
of the prestigious publisher Brasiliense, he was
determined to found his own publishing
business. He sold his apartment in So Paulo.
With his wife, historian Lilia Moritz Schwarcz,
he founded Companhia das Letras, and set it
up at the back of his familys printing business. Luiz Schwarcz
Schwarcz was convinced that Brazilian readers
were ready for books beyond the Brazilian classics and the young
readers titles that had become Brasilienses bread-and-butter.
Surely, he thought, there was a market for beautifully made high
quality fiction and non-fiction. His first choicea translation of
Edmund Wilsons To the Finland Stationwas a gamble. It paid
off, and became an unlikely bestseller.
More than 30 years and more than 6,000 titles later,
Companhia das Letras remains the gold-standard in Brazilian
publishing. A survey carried out among literary critics and scholars
in 2010 by Brazils business newspaper, Valor Econmico, revealed
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that it was considered the best publishing house in
Brazilit received 81% of the respondents votes.
A combination of commercial acumen and
canny editorial choices has given Companhia
das Letras the largest share of trade publishing
in Brazil. It has endured the ups and downs of
Brazils publishing market: often buoyed by
government purchases, it also came close to
becoming a casualty of the hyper-inflation of
the 1990sin one instance, Companhias
edition of the multi-volume A History of
Private Life was almost ready when it became
apparent that there was not enough money to
pay the printers. Only careful negotiations with creditors
allowed the books to see the light of day.
In 2011, a strategic partnership with Penguin led to
Companhia introducing a vast array of classic titles to the
Brazilian market. Its merger with Rio-based Objetiva, in 2015,
made it the single-largest publisher of Brazilian authors.
Today, the Companhia das Letras Group comprises 16 different
imprints, ranging from childrens literature to non-fiction. It
publishes 38 Nobel Laureates, including Toni Morrison, Doris
Lessing, Jos Saramago, J M Coetzee and Orhan Pamuk. It also
has in its catalogue some of the most outstanding Brazilian
authors of contemporary fiction such as Chico Buarque,
Rubem Fonseca and Milton Hatoum, in addition to owning
rights to works by some of Brazils classic writersfrom the poet
Carlos Drummond de Andrade to novelist Jorge Amado.
With Luiz Schwarcz at the helm, the Companhia das Letras
Group has claimed the largest number of Jabuti awardsits
authors have won 206 awards from Brazils top book prize
since 1988. Schwarcz himself has received numerous accolades
over the decades, including Brazils Man of Ideas prize
(1987) and the Making the Difference award (2004).
He has also worked to improve literacy among disenfranchised
groups in Brazil. In 2010 Companhia das Letras pioneered the
creation of book clubs in partnership with local libraries and
community centres. Today there are at least 20 such book clubs,
including some in prisons, hospitals and social organizations
for disadvantaged young people. Companhia never set out to
be elitist, Schwarcz has said. We wanted to democratise high
culture, with books that were accessible to all.
The self-described book fetishist is known for shunning
the spotlight, and regularly rails against the cult of the
publisher. He has avoided making overtly political
comments, though he recently declared his opposition to the
impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff.
Famous for his attention to detail, and for his fierce loyalty
to his authors, Schwarcz has also mentored a new generation
of publishers and editors, most of whom cut their teeth at
Companhia das Letras and have since gone on to publishing
careers elsewhere.
To edit books is always an act of optimism, he has written.
When we commit to a book, we are also inventing the future.
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Author of the Day: Olga Togarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk is todays Author of the Day.
Nicholas Clee caught up with her in the run up
to the Fair.
NC: Have you visited the London Book Fair
before? Any book fairs?
OT: Yes, I have been to London on the
occasion of promoting one of my novels
English editions and I have also visited many
other international fairs. I think they all seem
alike. If there is life after death, then a purgatory
for writers would resemble the book fairs: huge Olga Tokarczuk
halls, crowds of people and hundreds of
thousands of books. Writers are usually introverts, they work in
solitude and, in a way, hold a feeling of uniqueness. That is why
such fairs can be a challenge for the authorsthey find out how
many other people also write, and what a big business it all is.
NC: Whats on your schedule for Wednesday?
OT: At 11:30 in the National Hall Gallery Club Room I will
speak with other Polish and British female writers about the
situation of women in literature. At 14:30 there will be a Q&A
with me at the English PEN Literary Salon. There is so much
going on during these three days at the Fair. I assumed I would
have a chance to roam around London, but it seems quite
impossible now.
NC: After a period of liberation and hope
when the Soviet Union collapsed, we appear to
be seeing freedoms under threat again. How
worried are you about the political climate?
OT: Yes, I am concerned. I feel that we are on
the verge of a huge change. The world we live in
has changed so abruptly in the last 70 years and
it continues rapidly to do so. I mean mostly the
information revolution bringing a fast access to
knowledge, the speed of communication, the
vast impact of media, climate change, wars, the
new human migration. Altogether it makes
people feel frightened and wishing for a return to
a more stable, safer world, where things are simple, traditions
permanent, and people know their place in the social structure.
Such a need for regression makes people crave a more black and
white reality. There is a point of struggle, also on display in
politics: between openness and seclusion, between a simple vision
of the world and a complex one. Literature has a role to play
here. And good literature is always on the other side.
Translated by Iwona opaciska and Ewa Ayton. Olga Tokarczuk will be
in conversation with Deborah Levy at London Review Bookshop on
Thursday 16th March for London Book & Screen Week.

NC: Do you hope that your presence at the Fair, and Polands
status as Guest of Honour, will help raise the profile of Polish
literature?
OT: I think that, from time to time, it is worth presenting to
English readers something different, originating in this part of
the world, in which, it seems, they do not take much interest. I
know that on the British book market there is only a few
percent of foreign translations.

NC: You trained as a psychologist. How has that, and

Jungian psychology in particular, influenced your fiction?
OT: I think that studying psychology is a good way of preparing
oneself for writing. First of all, you learn to look at the seemingly
obvious things from unobvious points of view. Secondly, you
always pay attention to the detailand that is crucial in a writers
work. And last, but not the least, you learn how to listen to
other people. A lot of my stories come from listening to others.

NC: You write in different genres. Do you find that you have
to transcend genres in order to encompass your themes?
OT: Genres come into being in accordance with the specific
needs of their time. They are only a form for the story. Some
writers can bring specific genres to perfection. However, I think
that a genre is sometimes insufficient, too formal, limiting. I
was never interested in writing a crime novel just to find out
who committed the crime. It is a waste of paper. I try to expand
and change the genre frames so that they suit me better.

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Books changing lives in Sierra Leone
Every year for the last three years, the UK
book trade has donated in excess of one
million new books to our charity, Book Aid
International. We send those books to
thousands of libraries in sub-Saharan Africa
and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in
communities where books are scarce. In
2016, 38,226 of those books were shipped
to a new country of operation for our
charity: Sierra Leone.
The need for books in Sierra Leone Headteacher Yearie
There has been a long-standing need for
books in Sierra Leone. Bookshops are nearly non-existent
even in the countrys capital, Freetown, and only 43% of
the countrys population is classed as literate.
Today, the country is still recovering from the Ebola
epidemic, which swept the country between 2014 and 2016,
and killed almost 4,000 people. Schools were forced to close
for a full year to slow the spread of the disease. The crisis has pleased to receive a donation of books in June 2016. These
increased the need for books. Sierra Leone did not have
sufficient health professionals prior to the crisis, and Ebola
killed 5% of Sierra Leones doctors and 7% of its nurses.
This has led to a huge need for books to train new health
professionals. Books are now also urgently needed to help
students, who missed a full year of their education, catch up.
The books which were donated by our UK book trade
partners in 2016 are now in the hands of students, health care
professionals and readers across Seirra Leone, helping
communities and individuals recover. Here are two examples of
how these books are making change possible in Sierra Leone.
Investing in health infrastructure
Hospitals, schools and clinics in Sierra Leone urgently need
up-to-date medical texts. Every year, we receive thousands
of medical books from UK publishers, so in 2016 we were
very pleased to be able to help Sierra Leones health
professionals access the books they need.
The impact of up-to-date medical texts in universities and
health care settings is hard to overstate. The Nixon Memorial
Hospital in Eastern Sierra Leone, for example, has a nursing
school, which trains more
than 75% of the nurses who
work across the entire eastern
region of Sierra Leone.
Previously, it was forced to
operate with very few up-to-
date medical books. Now,
1,000 medical books, donated
by our publishing partners,
are being used by the nurses
to ensure that they have the
skills they need to provide the
Reading donated books best possible patient care.
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The hospitals manager, Mr John Saffa,
explained the impact that the books are
having: One might look at the contribution
of books you have made towards the
development of this hospital as very little,
but we are looking at it as a great help to
this hospital and the community at large.
The books are so good for us!
Ensuring that schools have the books they need
to get students back to learning is also a priority
across Sierra Leone, so we ensured that schools
across the country received books to use in their
classrooms. One of those schools was Bassa Town Primary
School in the town of Waterloo, Sierra Leone. The schools
headteacher, Yearie, explains the difference that their library is
making: Before we only had a small number of curriculum
textbooks and no other books at all. Most families cannot
afford to buy books for their children. That is why I was so
books have been so good for us! Children can come to the
library, read the books and
improve their reading skills.
They are learning about
different places, people and
communities, and that helps
them to feel happy and lively.
The children are so eageryou
can see the excitement in them
to come to our small library
and read.
And the students know
that the books are critical for
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their futures. Ten-year-old
Memunatu says: I like the library because on a Wednesday
we come here and learn something, and read. I like school. It
is for my future. When I grow up, I want to be a lawyer.
An eye to the future
These are just two examples of how a small percentage of
the 1,032,610 books donated by our generous book donors
are now changing lives in Africa.
As we look to the future, we want to continue ensuring
that the books we receive reach the places where they can
do the most good. This year will see us expanding our work
with schools that lack resources, supporting more health
institutions that cannot afford up-to-date medical books
and reaching out to people who face special challenges in
accessing books in Sierra Leone and beyond.
Our ability to send books to these communities depends entirely
on the generosity of the UK book industry. To get involved or learn
more, please contact info@bookaid.org, visit our stand at London
Book Fair (4A03) or call us directly on 020 7733 3577.
Emma Taylor is head of communications at Book Aid International.
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The rise of the independent
Bridget Shine reports on the continuing ambition and professionalism of UK
independent publishers, and innovation in the sector
For all the digital transformation of recent
years, publishing remains very much a
people business. You can see that at every
turn at the London Book Fairand it is
especially true of the IPGs (Independent
Publishers Guild) lively collective stand that
hosts hundreds of encounters a day, both
planned and serendipitous.
It was also obvious at our recent Annual
Spring Conference, at which nearly 300 IPG
members got together for a couple of days to
network, socialise and share their expertise. Bridget Shine
Those outside publishing might think that
the need to meet up like this is diminished by email, Skype
and the rest. But if anything, the onslaught of technology
has made the desire to meet face to face even greater.
Human interaction is behind one of the most striking
impressions of our Conference and London Book Fair: the
way in which independent publishers constantly strive to
learn from one another and improve. Our membership is
packed with far-reaching, forward-thinking and supremely
professional companies that are getting better and better at
their publishing, and our recent Harbottle & Lewis
Independent Publishing Report spotlighted three key ways
in which they have diversified far beyond selling books
through British bookshops.
Truly international
First, they have become truly international businesses. Our
report finds members draw well over a quarter (29%) of
their sales from overseas now, and an average of a ninth
(11%) of them from rights and coeditions.
Second, they are getting closer and closer to their end-
users. Direct-to-consumer channels account for an average
of 30% of our members sales, and many more at specialist
publishers working in numerous niches of the market.
Third, they have become platform-agnostic. Just a few
years ago digital might have been considered an add-on to
some businesses, but now it is fully integrated. More than a
quarter (29%) of IPG members now have all their titles
available in digital format, up from 18% in 2015. The two
digital category winners at our recent Independent
Publishing Awards highlighted a couple of fine examples of
innovation: Bloomsburys rich and commercially successful
new Fashion Library, and How2Becomes energetic
marketing via YouTube and other social platforms.
Most important of all, our members businesses are
growing. Close to nine in ten of them told the survey for
our Harbottle & Lewis Independent Publishing Report
that their sales have either grown (51%) or stayed stable
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(34%) in the previous 12 months. This has
encouraged new start-ups to enter
publishing, like the three brilliant and
diverse independents on the shortlist for
our recent Nick Robinson Newcomer
Award: childrens specialist Firefly Press,
literary list Orenda Books and the eventual
winner, photography publisher Hoxton
Mini Press. The record number of IPG
membersnow at more than 600 companies
and countingis testament to the constant
flow of new arrivals.
Making more of scarce resources
This is not to say that life in independent publishing is a
bed of roses. The report revealed lots of concerns, like the
long-term impacts of Brexit, intense competition for
bookshops shelf space and finding the time to achieve
everything they would like to. With an average of fewer
than ten full-time staff, independents resources can quickly
get stretched.
This is something the IPG has always strived to help
with. It is going to be one of the most important areas of
our work in 2017 through the IPG Skills Hub, a major new
portal for free online training in numerous areas of
publishing. Bringing together full-scale courses in subjects
starting with publicity and rights, plus bite-size advice
drawn from IPG events and other resources, we are going
to build the Hub into a comprehensive, one-stop shop for
professional development. It will help staff to widen their
skill sets so they can do the sort of multi-tasking for which
independents are renowned, and is a brilliant example of
the collaborative ethos of IPG members.
We will be helping our members in many more new ways
in 2017through a new partnership with the Rights People
agency to offer help building rights sales, for instance, and
by getting involved with the Booksellers Associations
brilliant new initiative to get publishers to spend a day
working in a bookshop. That will help our members to
improve their knowledge of the way books are sold, and
strengthen their links with their independent counterparts
in retail, whose recent renaissance we have been delighted
to see.
All this helps the IPG fulfill its central ambition: to help
independent publishers become even better businesses. The
talent of our sector is plain to see around Olympia, and we
are honoured to be part of it. 
Bridget Shine is chief executive of the IPG. The IPGs collective London
Book Fair stand, hosting several dozen independent publishers, can be
found at 6E70.
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Readers, writers and rejection slips
The subtle dance between publisher and author
can be tricky: the author brand versus the
corporate brand, a peacock show of strength that
ebbs and flows as sales invigorate the display, or
otherwise, writes Nick Wells. Of course, the sales
come from readers, and lest we forget, our writers,
published, rejected or dwelling still within the
dismissively termed Slush Pile, are readers too.
The intricacy of the dance reveals itself more
intriguingly in a modern world where nearly
700,000 new books are self-published in the US,
more than 480,000 of which appear on Amazon Nick Wells
alone. And thats an increase of more than 400%
in just six years. Denizens of the Slush Pile now have options rather
than wait cap-in-hand for crumbs of recognition.
The publishers contract, which used to exhort the author to
local readings and signings, now demands more, in a hugely
competitive market. And of course, we compete with box sets,
streaming services, music, games, anything that can be consumed
on the screens that dominate our lives. Tacitly we understand this:
we require authors to build their own author platforms, to turn
themselves into marketing machines, always available, always
watchful, Tweeting, emailing, blogging. And todays writers,
successful or otherwise, are social media savvy, often more so than
the companies that decide their publishing fate. And yet the lure of
publishing is still powerful: the personal validation of publication,
the exposure of reviews, the lofty recognition by an apparently
higher authority. So far, so normal.
Its not unusual
Its not unusual to say we should treat authors with respect,
kindness even. Unless we see ourselves as market traders moving
carelessly from product to product, weighing short term
advantage. Notwithstanding the latest ghost written celebrity
blockbuster or vlogger sensation, we all know that nurturing talent
in the long term produces the best results.
Its not unusual to say we should be positive in our approach to
the Slush Pile, that we should think of this as prospecting for gold,
rather than wading through mud. But often, we are at fault. Its not
unusual for a publisher to pitch against the tide of unsolicited
manuscripts, to strike a weary, privileged pose and focus on the
poor grammar, the lack of literary ambition, the sub-standard
letter. Its not unusual to leave the reading of the unsolicited to the
eager intern, a graduate whose experience of life is less developed
than most of the authors on whom they sit in judgement.
Publishers are much misunderstood, and willfully so.
Publishing is a business. It has staff and suppliers who need
to be paid. And yet, for many writers, publishing is a
dream. In this collision between the ideal and the
commercial, business and dreams are not easy bedfellows.
Accountants, driven both by shareholders and the
understandable obsession with a solid balance sheet, prefer books
by the dead certainty of a previous bestselling author, or high
ranking celebrity. The irritating requirement to nurture an author,
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or a concept, rather than place a bet on the stock
market rattling up and down, appears irrational
in the short term. An editors hunch is not
quantifiable, the sales of a TV soap star with their
childrens book are more predictable.
But taste is difficult to define, let alone to
achieve, and often this is where the bestsellers
come from. And they take considerable amounts
of judgement, and an annoying amount of luck.
We should allow here a distinction between the
big four publishers so lauded by the retail chains,
whose size alone guarantees distribution, if not
always salesand the independent publishers who
work fiercely with their authors.
Of course, we are all busy. Finding bestsellers, developing new
prospects, encouraging celebrities. But the Slush Piles grow, at both
agents and publishers, once by post, but now by email. In my first
years in publishing I remember the gawky, bespectacled graduate
who ploughed mournfully through the fields of dreams, only to
dismiss the ignorance and clichs buried within. Of course, thats
all he did, received and read manuscripts, every day. His lofty
degree had not prepared him for the drudgery of commercial life.
Perhaps he should have been a soldier, or a vicar; instead he
entered publishing at the lowest level and became the gleeful, low-
paid executioner of a thousand literary texts. His weariness bore
cynicism and elitism, and the forgetful tone of one who accepts
literature as a right, rather than a joy. In a metropolitan culture of
literary plenty it is hard to understand that so many people are
denied the simple pleasure of reading without censure-ship (sic).
But that was then. So, what about those we reject? Do they go
gently into that night? Not any more. They are as social media
savvy as those accepted for publication, they participate in forums
and communities, vote up answers on Quora, review books on
Amazon; they are often digital natives, and even if theyre not, they
read. They all read. A recent Reddit survey of sf authors showed
that 54% of readers surveyed were also writers. Its not surprising,
theyre genre enthusiasts, they dwell in the breath of imagination,
living it and writing, and reading every day.
And for every book a Slush Pile reject has written, theyll
have read perhaps hundreds of books on the way. These are
our readers, our consumers, it makes good commercial sense
to treat them with care. Its not just decency, its about
understanding our readers and engaging with them. The
readers are writers, and advocates for their genres. Respect
and encouragement brings bigger communities, speaking to
humans in their/our own language.
Flame Tree is launching Flame Tree Press, a new trade imprint
for sf, fantasy, crime and horror novels, founded on our close
contact with our community of consumers. Weve received
thousands of manuscripts, all from committed readers. We know,
as they do, that well disappoint many hopeful, enthusiastic
writers, but our challenge is to do so while retaining their good will
as readers. And we do so need our readers.
Nick Wells is publisher and creative director of Flame Tree Publishing.
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 London show daily
Hachette: Changing the story
Yassine Belkacemi reports on Hachettes diversity initiative
It is well established that diversity in
publishing is not only a moral responsibility,
but one that would be hugely beneficial for
business in an industry whose wellbeing
depends on discovering new audiences. As
an industry, it should be a given that our
workforce better reflects our multicultural
society. By virtue of being an island nation
we are necessarily outward looking, our eyes
set on distant horizons, wilfully not
retreating into our own cocoon or bubble.
However, despite the clear good will and Yassine Belkacemi
understanding of why we as an industry need to strive for
greater diversity, there has been a distinct lack of effective
action taking place in order to achieve this. Consequently,
the idea of diversity in publishing is in danger of becoming
a fad. I believe that we are at a pointgiven the political
climatewhere lip service isnt enough; it is organised
action that matters, starting from a grassroots level.
Hachettes Changing the Story diversity programme is an
extremely positive move into this area that will hopefully
result in tangible outcomes. The idea is to make structural
improvements in Hachettes recruitment process, while
removing barriers and improving opportunities, so as to
recruit a more diverse workforce.
Real change
In May of 2016, a working party of 10 was invited to a
meeting organised by Little, Brown and Orion CEO David
Shelley. The intention was to come up with a concrete set of
initiatives that would lead to real change that would make
Hachette a more diverse business.
The initial working party was comprised of Hachette UK
employees from junior to middle-management levels, who
came from a range of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
The initial discussion felt at first somewhat of a catharsis. It was
a frank discussion, each person expressing views on diversity
in publishing that stemmed from a personal experience and the
obstacles each had faced. However, the meeting quickly moved
on to pinpoint what practical solutions could be taken to the
board for approval. A range of initiatives was presented by
David Shelley to the Hachette board and all were approved.
These included: paid work experience; a BAME (Black,
Asian, and minority ethnic) internship scheme; a school
outreach programme; and in-house diversity events, as well
as all Hachette employees undertaking training in
Unconscious Bias. Another outcome from this working
group was the Diverse Future Leaders Mentoring Scheme,
which I was heavily involved in.
For me, this scheme in particular encapsulates what
Changing the Story is trying to achieve. The scheme has
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been implemented as follows: after a blind
application process, successful Hachette UK
applicants from backgrounds under-
represented on the board in terms of
ethnicity, socio-economic status, religion,
gender, sexuality and age, were paired with
members of Hachette UKs board. These
board members, who have undergone
mentorship training, hold regular meetings
with their mentees. Each mentee aims to
discuss specific objectives they would like to
achieve with their mentor, who will impart
the knowledge and skills required to steer each applicant
on the path to senior management.
More openness
This scheme is unique in UK publishing and opens up the
structure of the business to allow employees from junior
and middle management to have one-on-one access to
board members. This openness and improved access not
only benefits that individual, but empowers them in the
long term to be a bearer of continued change. Changing the
Story is about making Hachette a more accessible
workplace for those from all backgrounds. There is a very
holistic approach to this in that all the initiatives work
together not only to attract new and diverse talent, but to
nurture that talent so they have a path from entry-level to
senior management.
Moreover, this is a programme that has seen the initial
working party of 10 grow to more than 70 in number. The
working group has also been able to progress and
implement practical solutions to tackle the need for
increased diversity because junior members of staff have
instigated many of these initiatives, and have subsequently
been heavily backed by senior management. To my mind,
this groundswell of support from all levels is the key to the
success of Changing the Story.
It is incredibly heartening and a source of pride to see
Changing the Story actually changing the story of diversity.
It is channelling good intentions and good will into visible
outcomes. I work with incredibly driven and hardworking
people who strive to produce the best books possible in an
extremely competitive market.
It would be hard to deny these people their free time, but
all those involved in Changing the Story have willingly
given up their time to contribute to the schemeit is that
vital to them and everyone at Hachette UK. At a time when
good news is welcome, it is with great excitement that I
look forward to seeing the next chapter of the diversity
story at Hachette being written.
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