Post by account_disabled on Dec 9, 2023 3:44:54 GMT
Reading is a pastime, study, information. The reader who buys a book feels the need to know, to quench his hunger for knowledge, he too is chasing something, the traces of his favorite author, perhaps, the passion for adventure, for the fantastic, visions of the future, even if only imagined, fictitious, trails of blood and ghosts of people who no longer exist. Every reader finds in a book what makes it alive, real, a sort of other self in the form of literature. This is literature for those who read: a continuous discovery and rediscovery of oneself, each time in different guises, in different universes.
Those who read - most of them, at least - have a paper object in front of them, a set of pages that hide a story and never wonder how that story was born, why it is there, letting itself be told by a stranger. Literature is a cultural heritage that conceals the suffering of the writers who made it possible, accessible to readers who read without thinking Phone Number Data about the true meaning of what those pages, those stories, represent. A book is a product for the publisher The book is a commercial product. The publishing house is a company that lives on books, on the work of writers. It is a company that invests money, time, human resources – people! – in transforming a piece of art into a salable product.
The manuscript is a sui generis art form. Unlike a painting, which does not undergo editing, therefore purer, more natural art, non- artificial art , the book ready for the bookstore is the result of an assembly line, which involves various professional figures, united for the common good: the reader, therefore the customer, therefore the sale, therefore survival in the publishing market. Take a book and look what is written on the back cover or the third cover or sometimes on the inside flap. There is a price. A vulgar price that eliminates the writer's art and sacrifices it on the altar of commerce. To buy that art, to buy literature, you pay a price. The writer from an artist becomes a worker, not paid, but repaid in royalties , in percentages of sales.
Those who read - most of them, at least - have a paper object in front of them, a set of pages that hide a story and never wonder how that story was born, why it is there, letting itself be told by a stranger. Literature is a cultural heritage that conceals the suffering of the writers who made it possible, accessible to readers who read without thinking Phone Number Data about the true meaning of what those pages, those stories, represent. A book is a product for the publisher The book is a commercial product. The publishing house is a company that lives on books, on the work of writers. It is a company that invests money, time, human resources – people! – in transforming a piece of art into a salable product.
The manuscript is a sui generis art form. Unlike a painting, which does not undergo editing, therefore purer, more natural art, non- artificial art , the book ready for the bookstore is the result of an assembly line, which involves various professional figures, united for the common good: the reader, therefore the customer, therefore the sale, therefore survival in the publishing market. Take a book and look what is written on the back cover or the third cover or sometimes on the inside flap. There is a price. A vulgar price that eliminates the writer's art and sacrifices it on the altar of commerce. To buy that art, to buy literature, you pay a price. The writer from an artist becomes a worker, not paid, but repaid in royalties , in percentages of sales.