The Publishing Landscape is Always Changing - an opinion piece by Sherryl Clark
The Publishing Landscape Is Always Changing An opinion piece For those of you keeping a finger on the pulse of publishing, you may have heard the most recent news about Text Publishing being bought by Penguin RandomHouse in Australia. Although the news was released officially, most authors would have found out via social media, but I imagine those published by Text would have been told earlier in an email (that’s what usually happens). As several people commented, this possibly explains why the Text Prize for YA and MG books was cancelled. For NZ authors, you may think this news isn’t really relevant, but it’s the kind of thing that does reverberate across the ‘ditch’, not least because Text had a specifically NZ prize, too. But it doesn’t stop there. In the past six months, two other significant independent publishers have also been sold. Affirm Press (who are highly regarded for their picture book publishing, among other things) were bought by Simon & Schuster, and Pantera ...