He added: “Publishing houses in Brazil have already been launching fewer new titles, dropping slow sellers from their immediate plans, and letting staff go. He called on other publishers, booksellers and authors to join him in “the search for creative and idealistic solutions”. “The future of the book in Brazil will depend very much on those who have never ceased to regard reading as a passion. Brazilian writers had suddenly found there was a future in a full-time writing career,” he said. The way Brazilians have embraced Luiz Schwarcz’s love letter to books shows a collective will to turn a corner, again.”

Source: The Guardian December 11, 2018 14:03 UTC