The Quarto Group and Quarto Distribution Services have announced plans to distribute Clever Publishing's titles in the U.S., marking the Russian children's publisher's entry into the North American market. Clever, which launched in 2010 in Moscow, specializes in books and games for readers ages one
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Smaller fonts are getting less common, as art departments have to now consider what the cover will look like shrunken down on a phone. At the same time, especially in literary fiction, says Munday, publishers want the “big book look,” that elusive quality that makes a book look important on the shelf.
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Not only that, but the price of a literary fiction book has sunk in real terms in the past fifteen years, meaning authors and publishers are earning less off every book. Sales of ebooks have managed to counteract the dip in sales of physical books, but these have been commercial or genre books. No help to
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