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Dear colleagues

 

Could I ask a favour of colleagues who either teach or research in the area of book publishing?  Does anyone know of any useful work that has been written on the rise of fantasy publishing?  I know of one book – Mark Wolf’s big Building Imaginary Worlds – which has a little to say about the publishers.  But I am keen to find out – and haven’t been successful so far – what work may have been done on the place of this within contemporary publishing (within, for instance, the steady takeover of book publishers by multimedia firms, changes in advertising and marketing and the like; but also the appearance of smaller and more specialist publishers).  I am also keen to know if there is work (beyond the small number of books that have recently appeared) on the rise of subgeneric distinctions within this field (the rise of the ‘New Weird’ category in the 1990s; and the more recent naming of ‘Dark Fantasy’ for new vampiric stories).

 

Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.

 

Many thanks,

Martin Barker

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