The WSJ covers the resilience and success of some of the UK’s best independent publishers, giving Jamie Byng’s Canongate in particular the kind of press he gets all the time in the UK. In each case, one big author or book has lifted the entire house. Barack Obama the author has taken Canongate to new heights financially; Atlantic Books’ sales “more than doubled…thanks largely” to The White Tiger; and Steig Larsson has rescued the otherwise-overextended Quercus. Faber and Faber sales director Will Atkinson quips, “There are some big publishers who can’t go to the toilet without looking at BookScan. They […]
