{"id":5497,"date":"2017-02-22T10:19:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T06:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2017-02-22T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T06:21:22","slug":"5497-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/5497-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gail Rebuck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gail Rebuck<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Back in April, Penguin Random House UK Chair Gail Rebuck gave a 20-minute talk at the London Book Fair\u2019s Quantum conference, during which she shared her views on the effect technology has on books today. According to Rebuck, books will forever remain the \u201cDNA of our civilisation\u201d, despite the technological changes that have already happened or will happen in the future.<\/p>\n

That is not to say, of course, that technology hasn\u2019t changed anything. To the contrary, Rebuck believes that publishers\u2019 jobs are made easier by the huge amount of online research tools, since they can learn more about the world\u2019s tastes in literature. It\u2019s not all positive, however. Rebuck also thinks that technology has its dangers. In her speech, Rebuck noted a \u201cconcerning decline in authors\u2019 revenues\u201d, as only one out of ten writers live on the money they make from writing. She believes that modern problems such as price deflation and more competition from other media forms could be responsible for this situation.<\/p>\n

That being said, Rebuck urged publishers to not think of digital and physical media as \u201cenemies\u201d. After all, books are books, no matter how or where they\u2019re read. She hopes for a balanced future, one which will allow the possibility of giving young writers more options for getting published, but also one in which \u201cthe uniqueness of the author\u201d is never put under risk.<\/p>\n

For more than 20 years, Gail Rebuck has been the most important publisher in the UK. As the head of Random House, she\u2019s been responsible for many literacy projects and industry promotions, achieving success in a very difficult industry. Surprisingly, no one could\u2019ve predicted this when she was appointed back in 1991; she had a reputation as a publisher of lifestyle titles rather than \u201cserious\u201d books. However, in the years that followed, she has become the dominant force in UK publishing.<\/p>\n

For Rebuck, this success has come as a result of her approach to work. Failure is not an option. She wants only the best efforts from all of her employees. However, she\u2019s not arrogant, despite her success; she believes it\u2019s always the authors that are responsible for a publisher\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/strong> : Albanese, Andrew “Rebuck: technology \u2018cuts two ways\u2019.” London Show Daily<\/em>, April 2016, 1<\/p>\n

Clee, Nicholas “Gail Rebuck: making things work.” London Show Daily<\/em>, April 2016, 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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