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Joseph matheny in conversation with richard nash about publishingepublishing pastpresentfuture utne reader calls richard nash one of 50 visionaries who are changing your world. Traditionally, writers wrote, editors edited, publishers published, retailers sold, and reader read. Longtime friends and downtown literary fixtures richard nash and. The visionary independent publisher discusses how to make money from writing, why books are not culture, and why it isnt amazons fault. For more on how bookstores are doing globally,and the future of the publishing industry, cgtns rachelle akuffo spoke with the ceo of cursor. Cnn we are without doubt in the middle of the greatest. They use a reasonable array of best current practices to hustle the book. Theyre publishing your book and a bunch of other books like it so they can have exclusive rights over as much intellectual. Richard nash is an independent publishing consultant and entrepreneur supporting the writerreader relationship that is the essence of literary culture. Moreover, it was only ever a tiny handful of people. For more on how bookstores are doing globally,and the future of the publishing industry, cgtns rachelle akuffo spoke with the ceo of cursor, richard nash. Scholars have pointed to the importance of publishing a. Richard nash founded several theater companies in the 1990s, ran the iconic indie soft skull press in the 2000s, where the last book he edited, lydia millets love in infant.
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In 2006, publishers weekly picked him as one of the. Nash said that the germ of the idea for cursor was already in his head when he joined soft skull in 2001. He has been a constant inspiration in the rapid evolution of the publishing business for the last 14 years that i have known and worked with him. Above all, the business of literature is an honest assessment of the enterprise of publishinghow weve done it, how we do it, and why its worth doing in the first place. But publishing, like most humans, has a hard time really looking at the past, and tends to think of the present as being the way things have always been. Richard nash has 12 books on goodreads with 79 ratings.
Unquestionably, this serial entrepreneur, has been at the forefront of exploring what the digital revolution will mean for the. Exclusive interview with publishing visionary richard nash. Richard nash is the founder of the socialpublishing platform cursor and publisher of the imprint red lemonade. Richard nash, formerly of soft skull press and now launching cursor, a social publishing venture, says the old system of lifetime contracts is out of date.
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In his refreshing and thoughtprovoking presentation on the opening day of idpf digital book june 45, 2012 at bea 2012, richard nash cited the amazing statistic that 16 million people claimed to be. Lizzie curry, a very plain young woman, lives on a drought stricken farm with her father and two brothers, who have been trying to marry her off for ages. You attend any selfpublishing conference and you dont hear any shit get talked about their editors, no, the. Nash, former publisher at soft skull, is now launching a startup company.
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