Thursday, June 24, 2010

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Goodbye, Jose



He left us, so ', without words, suddenly. As seems to bring together the fate of the most' large.
87 years, is thought to be a better age, a time of life when a person has already said and done. But he 'is an exception to this rule, pseudo-age as an indicator of what' was done, was an immortal, with its extraordinary clarity that has accompanied him to death would give us many more wonderful moments reading, many other issues for discussion, that there has never failed in all his public support. That is not never go unnoticed, often raising objections, fights, repartee, often going to touch the raw nerve of some outstanding personalities or throwing burning issues. Bald-faced, the pen, its unique culture and intelligence, which made him one of the greatest personalities of the writing of our day.
was interested in everything, talked about everything, he expressed himself on everything. He did so as a journalist and then as a writer, with his usual frankness, who does not intend to send her to say. Never. And for this, perhaps, did not think twice about to publish his notebook, whose thoughts were originally designed exclusively for his blog. Einaudi has refused, for obvious political reasons, you can not ', in Italy, publish something that clashes with the interests of large landowners. Just to enhance the transparency and democratic veins seems our country does not want to show in any way.
His masterpiece BLINDNESS 'is a book which should be read, reread, enjoyed in every single word. He touched the conscience of everyone, including the fears, weaknesses, prompted thoughts, even stronger, by injecting doubt useful to make a very careful examination, the human intestine, disturbing, moving thoughts, overturning convictions that seemed to have acquired .
Every writer, as a person, should reflect their own writing and the themes chosen are one of the voices of their identity card. In Saramago has always been so ', showing it in front of a mirror you read his books. Leaving a lot, have a strong taste of immortality, just like him, so he decided, 'leave us orphans of everything' that was for everyone. Will be missed by all. Hello Jose.

Monday, June 21, 2010

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expose these phantom "flights" that are not so cheap


Once upon a time the economy (and in a sense the pocket).
Once the pocket was cheap, and cheap paperbacks. In addition to first editions. A full price.
prices, the euro got out without going to love our old lire, ranged from 4 to 8 supereconomici of 90 €. What is a pocket book / statement? A less cumbersome to carry around, purse, backpack, pocket, but also, by the publisher and the author to sell more over time a title that came out of the news and like, and how if you like, even the reader who apparently can not 'afford 15-16-17-18 € a pop for a title. Today I noticed a books, Cornwell defined economic, entered in the series Best Sellers "cheap" of Mondadori. The price I was shocked. € 13, € 20 with the paperback edition. But the one of the economic environment is less economical is now a reality, unfortunately for us readers. It would be enough to stop a bit 'in any library and notice of this additional weight imposed on the players' pockets. Many, many pocket, so even in editions are not beautiful to have and to protect, often easy to damage, bend, with bindings approximate, with a print of the text leaves much to be desired at times, now cost from € 10-11 up '. Madness. Pocket-cheap 15 euro? This is the bad habit that has become accustomed Mondadori, Einaudi enough too. Other publishing houses. For now, resist (but for how long?) The Tea, Adelphi, and the beautiful Newton Compton, Feltrinelli (but now with Saramago in the catalog, the economies of the author who died yesterday, again raised the price considerably).
There 's even those who have no economic issue (eg Elliot, Minimum Fax, Hyperborea), who has just decided to create a (Marcos y Marcos, among others). Question of opportunities, editorial choices.
Pero 'prices go up. With a degree, and dangerous, continuity. Unavoidable that it feels like. The solution? At this rate to get hurt are the publishers, who are at risk who can not afford an own goal. It is expected, from the point of view more 'pessimistic, a growing and constant reference to libraries and book stores. Speaking as a reader, who wants to spend on books and wants to continue doing so, I wonder why want to enjoy this' us community of readers? The reader is perhaps one of the figures that ensure greater fidelity to their passion. And give guarantees of revenues to their favorite publishers. Why force them to rethink their spending, their walks into the library, and reduced their consumption? (Defiantly I wonder) We return to the seventeenth-eighteenth century when literature was a consumer elite? Unless the ebook, does not become an important source of revenue, additional. But then what do you do? It is sold at an affordable price to the electronic book and continue to raise the paper? Yet the prospects are unclear, partly because the ebook in Italy has not yet taken several feet, at least for fiction.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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Small publishers are protected, protected, as an animal in danger of extinction


Okay, fair entirely dedicated to small-medium publishing here and there, there are (not least of which is to be held in Finale Ligure July 16 to 18, Wind Literature), and I think, from the haunting last fair of small and publishing media in Rome, can say without risk of being silenced, that there was a great success in terms of attendance and sales, and thus there is hope even for those small publishers, who with their skill , competence, courage, trying to carve out a niche in the Italian book market. The fact is that reading on the web, the Turin Book Fair, recently completed, to which I enthusiastically participated, the data should a bit 'ask themselves a question: the data on attendance are amazing, 20 years now, the inflow was the most' high, even 20% more 'than the previous edition. Pero 'digging a bit' more 'in depth, the reality also says that profits, increases in sales, plus go to the giants, who in reality was perhaps less need. Be careful, this does not say it's a negative. Indeed, they are welcome increased investment in people's product book, but also some thought-provoking discussions, stolen, including small publishers in Turin, as in reality people have largely stormed the giants of Italian, ignoring and not a little small publishing houses. What other well-deserved limelight, a very different focus. Perhaps it is that people lazy to look for something new in a more 'specific niche? Let them go, for convenience, for those who have more 'means and resources to get noticed? But word of mouth, where did it go? Small publishers, should live than that. I do much running in my small voice, but to be honest, I still have to invest much time to improve their knowledge in many small companies that definitely deserve at least the advertising that is done the giants, the sharks do not hesitate a moment to make out the small fish. Extraordinary in the draw (or redraw) the talents of writing, to have it taken to blow his nose with a disarming simplicity, suffering damage than even the joke, to not be recognized even as much as their 'little merit. A serving book fairs, if you have to colonize as in any library's huge stand, real shops, publishing companies that already sell greatly elsewhere, where they gather in Autogrill, in subway stations? What is the point, provocative, I wonder, organize festivals like that? The tastes of the people is, according to the commandments of my code reader, the first entry that pops up: never discuss it, if they can 'talk, discuss, but never judge. Pero ', a publishing house that does not have the means, the name, strength, the right channels to make themselves known, and the fair, which is the ultimate place to show off, knock on the door of the player who passes them to case, seen to be torn apart by those who occupy every corner of the library shelf forcing you to retreat into the back-filled with dust, what can 'mean? Take note of an eternal defeat or raise a little 'voice, if only to make themselves heard? Many do so with an extraordinary spirit of initiative in the country, online, in magazines, through word of mouth. Then, fortunately, we can also see some very interesting cases in evolution: Elliot, for example, Voland, or Minimum Fax, rose from the ground of "no" on a trampoline that perhaps they finally publishing is launching the reality that counts. But they have a history and source of funds as Feltrinelli, Mondadori. Yet perhaps we are doing the, step after small step to write their names next to the giant Olympus. There are also strategies fits perfectly, that they are paying all their nose: an example? The Voland by Amelie Nothomb. Because if it is true that the catalog that makes the difference, it might be enough of a name that will become prominent, to take off the rest. Just? I hope so, because small and medium-sized publishers are an inexhaustible richness, extraordinary, essential for the Italian publishing world, always as' living, dynamic, young, fresh and enterprising. It would be a shame and an enormous loss not value them. Even this is not enough and have also removed the reduced postage rates, I forgot.