An early example of printing: Chinese book, published 1162 CE
features
Welcome to our new features section! Here we will be collecting articles of interest to the worlds of writing, writers, and publishing. Our first article, Reading the Iron Rooster, has been written exclusively for CDLA. More will soon follow.
If you would like to write an article, or have already written one, and think we would like it, please contact us.
Chinese bookshops
Alistair Cotton and Emma Cookson are undergraduate economists at the University of Leeds with a keen interest in the book trade. When CDLA heard that they would be travelling round China for a month, we asked them to visit every bookshop they came across and to report their impressions, findings and conclusions for our website.
The agency was anxious to dispel its ignorance of the practical realities of China’s book trade (including the status of copyright), and eager for its authors and visitors to be au courant. The students travelled along the prosperous and industrialised east coast, notebooks and camera at the ready.
They visited seven cities: Xian, Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. As readers will discover, they are highly critical of English-language trade publishers for failing to get to grips with the challenges and opportunities that China presents.
Delivering the Creative Future
Caroline Davidson, literary agent, reports and comments on:
Delivering the Creative Future:
Rewarding Talent in the Digital Age
A PMA/BBC morning seminar and lunch held at The London Art House, Islington on Thursday 16 November 2006.
Al gore on CLIMATE CHANGE
Following the success of Al Gore’s AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, in film and book forms, the former US Vice President is now ‘training’ people around the world to spread the word about the danger of climate change. The University of Cambridge Programme for Industry (CPI) brought Mr Gore’s training initiative to the UK for the first time last week [26-27 March].