The CEO of Penguin Random House on trends in publishing
Markus Dohle is the global Chief Executive Officer of Penguin Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher. Additionally, he is Chairman of the Association of American PublishersThe national trade association of the American book publishing industry; AAP has more than 300 members, including most of the major commercial publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and scholarly societies and serves on the PENSupported by eminent writers, this is the English branch of International Pen, which has centres in nearly 100 countries. It fights for freedom of expression and against political censorship. It campaigns for writers harassed, imprisoned and sometimes murdered for their views. http://www.englishpen.org/ Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the National Book Foundation. Excerpts from an email interview:
The playwright David Hare said that the two most depressing words in the English language are "literary fiction". What is your sense of the future of literary fiction? People are reading more than ever, but is there still a place for longer, textured novels?
