Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Books / 2008 Obama Saves Publishing
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Hey, remember when Barack Obama saved newspapers from a slow, painful death for one day last week? He's about to save Canongate, the British publisher of his memoirs, from extinction, too.
Canongate Books, the Edinburgh publisher with global ambitions, has already relegated last year's dramatic slide in pre-tax profits - during which it noted none of its books "broke out in the market" - to the ancient history section, following the release of two books written by US President-elect Barack Obama.
Canongate's managing director, Jamie Byng, is one of the last great readers in publishing—he reads everything, all the time—and Canongate generally puts out great stuff. It couldn't happen to a nicer (British) publisher.
Semi-related: Does Obama's memoir now mean that we can stop referring to Grant's memoirs as the best presidential memoir ever? Or are we supposed to give any credence to these douchebags who insist Bill Ayers wrote Dreams of My Father?
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