Another footnote re the British Council.
About five or six years ago
the British Council
asked me to send copies of my book
Editor's Dilemma: 20 Years of Small Press Publishing
for a bookfair in Beijing.
I don't recall it leading to any actual sales.
I imagine they saw the title in Whitaker's list
(were the lists on CD ROM by then?)
They did send me a catalogue
but I can't recall whether any other titles
from small presses were included or not.
Gerald
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> From: Eleanor Margolies <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: British Council
> Date: 07 July 1998 16:59
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> A footnote on the British Council. I don't want to argue with what
> has been said about their gig policy, but I wonder if anyone can tell
> me how books are chosen for their libraries abroad. Is it up to
> the particular librarian? In 1993 the British Council library in
> Katowice, Poland, had some wonderful and surprising books: alongside
> the English Literature Heritage Dept volumes and the English Language
> textbooks were Denise Riley's 'Poets on Writing' and Ian Sinclair's
> novel 'Downriver' (which mentions Katowice on the first page, but
> that's coincidental and probably not the reason the novel was
> purchased) and even a book of poems by Barry McSweeney (I can't
> remember which). The selection of contemporary fiction was really
> excellent, the poetry more limited but even so...
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