I pronounced rather grandly recently that smaller publishers are the delicatessens of the publishing world. They are the supermarkets of the publishing world and have the heft to stack them high and sell them cheaper. However, at the smaller presses this is still the case. The big book pushes the smaller presses to the margins and the voices of our authors to the edges. The smaller presses are a bit like coral reefs, tiny, delicate and existing precariously in a world of big corporate fishes circling us.

Source: The Irish Times June 04, 2020 04:30 UTC