Tomar riesgos, resistir las presiones financieras y compromisos para defender obras valiosas. Perder el trabajo por rehusarse a aceptar recortes de personal, reducir el número de títulos publicados y a otros cambios. Reinventarse con la fundación de una editorial independiente, sin fines de lucro que publicó libros "de interés público" (sobre las relaciones raciales, derechos civiles, SIDA, cultura negra, historia, economía, medio ambiente, feminismo y otros temas) financiados por grandes fundaciones. Alertar en sus libros acerca de cómo los conglomerados internacionales cambiaron la forma que leer. Schiffrin, uno de los hombres más influyentes de letras de los Estados Unidos y de todo el mundo.
"It is now common to refer to people like Schiffrin as ‘old-fashioned’ editors and publishers. What the appellation really means is those who read a book before they decide to publish, those who value the role of good books in any culture, those who refuse to treat a book exclusively as a commodity to be judged only by sales figures, those who can still recognize and publish a good book with the full knowledge that it will cover its costs over the next five years rather than weeks. They have the intellectual confidence to decide that it will be a backlist seller for many years to come. Corporate publishing, as Schiffrin used to say, wants to destroy all this forever. In his last years he waged a ferocious literary war against this mentality. Women and men like him still exist, confined to small, but fiercely independent publishing houses in different parts of the world..." En http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1476-andre-schiffrin-in-memoriam
Tomar riesgos, resistir las presiones financieras y compromisos para defender obras valiosas. Perder el trabajo por rehusarse a aceptar recortes de personal, reducir el número de títulos publicados y a otros cambios. Reinventarse con la fundación de una editorial independiente, sin fines de lucro que publicó libros "de interés público" (sobre las relaciones raciales, derechos civiles, SIDA, cultura negra, historia, economía, medio ambiente, feminismo y otros temas) financiados por grandes fundaciones. Alertar en sus libros acerca de cómo los conglomerados internacionales cambiaron la forma que leer.
ResponderEliminarSchiffrin, uno de los hombres más influyentes de letras de los Estados Unidos y de todo el mundo.
"It is now common to refer to people like Schiffrin as ‘old-fashioned’ editors and publishers. What the appellation really means is those who read a book before they decide to publish, those who value the role of good books in any culture, those who refuse to treat a book exclusively as a commodity to be judged only by sales figures, those who can still recognize and publish a good book with the full knowledge that it will cover its costs over the next five years rather than weeks. They have the intellectual confidence to decide that it will be a backlist seller for many years to come. Corporate publishing, as Schiffrin used to say, wants to destroy all this forever. In his last years he waged a ferocious literary war against this mentality. Women and men like him still exist, confined to small, but fiercely independent publishing houses in different parts of the world..." En http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1476-andre-schiffrin-in-memoriam
ResponderEliminar