09-04-2020, 12:28 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54004162
"You can really tell there's a big, big flood of books coming," says Natasha Randall. "You can't pretend it's not a worry for an author."
Her debut novel, Love Orange, is published on Thursday. But according to trade journal The Bookseller, it will be one of 579 new books hitting the shelves.
That's a 24% rise on the number published at the start of September last year and, like most imbalances in 2020, it's because of lockdown.
Scott Pack, a publisher and editor at Eye and Lightning Books and former head of buying at Waterstones, says: "If you're a publisher and you had a big book coming out between April and August this year, then you probably postponed publication."
Ms Randall says: "Booksellers and book review sections are really up in arms about the volume of books coming at them. They just can't cope with the deluge."
I have to admit, I'd never thought about how many books are typically published in one day before - so, I don't really know how to react to this . However, if sellers and reviewers are struggling to cope, then that suggests it's quite unusual!
Still, if nothing else, I hope it helps out some of the smaller book shops that have been struggling.
"You can really tell there's a big, big flood of books coming," says Natasha Randall. "You can't pretend it's not a worry for an author."
Her debut novel, Love Orange, is published on Thursday. But according to trade journal The Bookseller, it will be one of 579 new books hitting the shelves.
That's a 24% rise on the number published at the start of September last year and, like most imbalances in 2020, it's because of lockdown.
Scott Pack, a publisher and editor at Eye and Lightning Books and former head of buying at Waterstones, says: "If you're a publisher and you had a big book coming out between April and August this year, then you probably postponed publication."
Ms Randall says: "Booksellers and book review sections are really up in arms about the volume of books coming at them. They just can't cope with the deluge."
I have to admit, I'd never thought about how many books are typically published in one day before - so, I don't really know how to react to this . However, if sellers and reviewers are struggling to cope, then that suggests it's quite unusual!
Still, if nothing else, I hope it helps out some of the smaller book shops that have been struggling.
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