Publish or be damned: why the world (still) needs publishers
08 Mar 2007
To mark World Book Day, Stephen Page - president of the Publishers Association - argues in The Guardian that in our digital age the relationship between editors and writers is more important than…
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To mark World Book Day, Stephen Page - president of the Publishers Association - argues in The Guardian that in our digital age the relationship between editors and writers is more important than ever...To mark World Book Day, Stephen Page - president of the Publishers Association - argues in The Guardian that in our digital age the relationship between editors and writers is more important than ever...In February 1934, Geoffrey Faber, founder of Faber & Faber, gave a lecture to the Oxford University English Club entitled "Are publishers any use?" It may come as no surprise to hear that he felt they were, despite "the modern view of a publisher as ... less an arbiter of taste than a parasitic middle-man".
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