What is an author? Contemporary publishing discourse and the author figure

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-76

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EID: 33645367278     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-000-1014-4     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Celia Lury Consumer Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996)
2. Michel Foucault "What is an Author?" in Language, Counter-Memory Practice: Selecetd Essays and Interviews (ed.) Donald Bouchard, trans. Donald Bouchard and Sherry Simon (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1977)
3. Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author" in Image-Music-Text trans, and ed. Stephen Heath (London: Fontana, 1977)
4. Foucault "What is an author" ibid.
5. Jane E. Lewin (Cambridge: CUP, 1997) pp. 16
6. The Barnes & Noble shop in Union Square, New York, comprises 67,500 square feet of selling space
7. The new Waterstone's Piccadilly shop which opened on 14 September 1999, has a caf6, juice bar, licensed bar, restaurant and an events floor, as well as "numerous sofas, tables and chairs' and Internet stations.
8. Ominibus BBC 2 November 1995.
9. Pierre Bourdieu, "The Market for Symbolic Goods" in The Field of Cultural Production (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993).
10. Andrew Welham. The Bookseller. 25 June 1993 pp. 24-5
11. Lucy Ellman, a two-book novelist contributed a weekly opinion column to the Independent on Sunday until axed by the incoming editor before the present one, Rosie Boycott, in 1996.
12. Martin Amis covers Wimbledon, snooker and other sporting events for the Evening Standard.
13. Academic, educational and SMT book publishing does use a number of response market research strategies available to a product where the market can be defined as "for use."
14. The Information was published in paperback at s it was one of the 18 books listed in the 100 paperback best sellers of 1996 at the same price; 7 were s I was s 2 were s 61 were s 4 were s 3 were s one was s and one-The Highway Code in at number four-was 99p. (The Bookseller 10 January 1997 pp. 24-5).
15. See Christine Resta A breakthrugh in the study f wmen Campaign 22 Nvember1985 pp. 26-8
16. Jason Cowley, Prospect August/September 1997, pp. 52-6.
17. P. Bourdieu The Field of Cultural Production ibid., p. 35.
18. A.S Byatt Evening Standard 12 February 1995.
19. Jonathan Wilson, "The Literary Life: A Very English Story," The New Yorker 6 March 1995 pp. 96-104.
20. The Cobden Working Men's Club and Institute, "Last Monday, in its upstairs room, Martin Amis launched his new novel, The Information, with a party for 200 glitzy guests gorging on champagne and canapes . . . . The future seems arty enough for the Cobden Working Men's Club built beside the Great Western canal for bargees, laundry workers, totters and others of the worthy poor of Notting Hill and Kensal Town. Men from the local gasworks then joined, as did workers from a nearby biscuit factory, both now closed. They would have been surprised to encounter some of the club's recent visitors: Mick Jagger, Richard Branson, Boy George, Barry Humphries . . . . Eight years ago, Glyn Baker, son of the late British actor, Sir Stanley Baker, began renting unused space for trendy sushi dinners. The upstairs rooms which once accommodated a library and a beautiful high-ceilinged theatre had fallen into disrepair. Occasionally they were used as sets for television series (Steptoe and Son and Minder). The club's 120 'hard-core' members-a fraction of the 19th-century membership which ran into four figures-were glad to have the extra revenue." (Simon Midgley "Pint of mild and some sushi for my friend," Independent on Sunday 2 April 1995).
21. In 1919 the winner of the Prix Goncourt was Les Jeunes Filles en Fleurs. The publishers of its rival Roland Dorgeles' Les Croix du Bois banded this with a strip that read "Prix Goncourt" and, in very small letters, "Quatre voix sur dix" ("Four votes out of ten") quoted in Gerard Genette Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation trans. Jane Lewin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
22. Martin Amis, The Information (London: HarperCollins, 1995 p. 105).
23. So successful, indeed, that the formula has been repeated by Flamingo (the paperback imprint of HarperCollins who published The Information) in their promotion of another Indian epic novel, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997) which was advertised as "Tomorrow's classic today."
24. A Suitable Boy was published by Orion in conventional hard and paperback format. It was also produced as a two-volume cased set selling at the same price as the hardback (s a treatment accorded to Proust's Rememberance of Things Past in the Terence Kilmartin translation.
25. Or the "Elizabeth Hurley of letters," quoted in Lucretia Stewart "What is Martin's magic?" Daily Telegraph 24 May 1996.
26. Martin Amis is an iconic figure. He cracks out memorable phrases sentences like a ringmaster in the circus of the grotesque." Melvyn Bragg in the Evening Standard 20 March 1966 pp. 27 quoted on the recto copyright page of The Information (London: Flamingo-a paperback imprint of HarperCollins-1996).
27. Interview with Alastair Giles, Marketing Manager, HarperCollins 11 July 1996
28. Jacques Derrida Of Grammatgy trans. Gayatri Spivak (Batimre: Jhns Hpkins Press,1976).
29. Richard Ohmann Politics of Letters (Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1987).
30. The Bookseller 10 January 1997qThe Information was number 94 in Alex Hamilton's annual round up of best sellers.
31. Published in September 1997