[SKRIVA] Gratisböcker 5/3 på World Book Night får kritik
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:14:03 +0100
5 mars har det utlysts en World Book Night, då miljoner gratisböcker skall
skänkas bort till allmänheten. Men saken får också kritik, som säger att det
skadar författares och bokhandlare:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/10/world-book-night-branded-misguided-misjudged
"Three weeks ahead of the inaugural World Book Night book-giving event on 5
March, a row has broken out over whether the event will damage independent
booksellers and harm authors.
World Book Night, dubbed "the largest book giveaway ever", will see 20,000
members of the public giving away 48 copies of their favourite book – chosen
from a list of titles that includes work by Margaret Atwood, John le Carré,
Sarah Waters, David Mitchell and poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In total, one
million books will be gifted on the night.
Masterminded by Jamie Byng, managing director of publisher Canongate, the event
has a roster of starry supporters and will receive extensive coverage on BBC2.
Many of the authors – who will all waive the royalties on their books – have
given World Book Night enthusiastic public support, with Atwood saying she was
"amazed by its magnitude".
But Vanessa Robertson, who owns the Edinburgh Bookshop in Bruntsfield,
Edinburgh, has claimed that, far from spreading the joy of reading, World Book
Night will simply flood the market with free books and devalue the work of
authors in the eyes of the public."
--Ahrvid
Ps. Trots namnet ("World...") får jag intrycket att eventet enbart gäller
Storbritannien. Har inte hört något om att något liknande händer i t ex Sverige.
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