'Our main responsibility is to our authors' | The Bookseller

Well, it's all about the authors isn't it? It's not all down to our design, distribution or marketing skills, is it? It's authors who write the game-changing books. Who slave through three quiet novels to produce one that touches a chord with enough people to make a bestseller. Authors who have hit their stride at an apposite moment, with a publisher who can help them capitalise it, can shape culture. They can become a part of a generation's collective consciousness, spawn movies, merchandise, change habits. Create wealth. Employment. Inspire. Change lives. On and on. No wonder everyone wants in... An author-centric publisher takes what an author knows about the reader's interests and lives, and works it really, really hard.