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British authors and their publishers: Dividing the spoils amid creative tension

British authors and their publishers: Dividing the spoils amid creative tension L O G O S British authors and their publishers: Dividing the spoils amid creative tension Mark Le Fanu A graduate in physics and e c o ' nomics from the University of Sussex, Mark Le Fanu saw six years of service in the Royal Navy before embarking on a career as a solicitor in a large London legal practice in 1 9 7 3 . H e was appointed Assistant General Secretary of T h e Society of Authors in 1979 and has been General Secretary since 1982. Britain's 107-year-old Society of Authors, today a flourishing professional association with 5,000 members, had a difficult b i r t h . In t h e 19th century, the notion that authors - eccentrics, indi• vidualists, outsiders - should creep out of their garrets and form a professional society seemed para• doxical. It still seems so today. T h e idea was and is to form better relations with publishers. A collec• tive lelationship between authors and publishers is an elusive, nebulous concept. Are they not on the same side? They have a common interest in seeing t h a t books are well-written, beautifully produced, efficiently distributed and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

British authors and their publishers: Dividing the spoils amid creative tension

Fanu, Mark Le
Logos , Volume 2 (1): 21 – Jan 1, 1991
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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10.2959/logo.1991.2.1.21
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L O G O S British authors and their publishers: Dividing the spoils amid creative tension Mark Le Fanu A graduate in physics and e c o ' nomics from the University of Sussex, Mark Le Fanu saw six years of service in the Royal Navy before embarking on a career as a solicitor in a large London legal practice in 1 9 7 3 . H e was appointed Assistant General Secretary of T h e Society of Authors in 1979 and has been General Secretary since 1982. Britain's 107-year-old Society of Authors, today a flourishing professional association with 5,000 members, had a difficult b i r t h . In t h e 19th century, the notion that authors - eccentrics, indi• vidualists, outsiders - should creep out of their garrets and form a professional society seemed para• doxical. It still seems so today. T h e idea was and is to form better relations with publishers. A collec• tive lelationship between authors and publishers is an elusive, nebulous concept. Are they not on the same side? They have a common interest in seeing t h a t books are well-written, beautifully produced, efficiently distributed and

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Published: Jan 1, 1991

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