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Columns by Richard Charkin and Coverage of His Work

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Richard Charkin: ‘The Perils of Literary Publishing’

In News by Richard CharkinMarch 27, 2023Leave a Comment

Exclusive: In this second of our pre-publication excerpts from Richard Charkin’s ‘My Back Pages,’ a look at what Charkin describes as a ‘mismatch of incentives’ in literary publishing.

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Richard Charkin: ‘Cutting-Edge Publishing Technologies of the 1970s’

In Feature Articles, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinMarch 20, 20232 Comments

Exclusive: Today, we open our series of excerpts from Richard Charkin’s ‘My Back Pages,’ releasing on April 17 from Marble Hill.

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Richard Charkin in England: On the ‘Desecration of Authors’ Works’

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinFebruary 27, 20235 Comments

‘To tamper with an author’s words when he or she is no longer with us to express an opinion is sacrilege,’ Richard Charkin writes.

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Richard Charkin on India: ‘A Million Mutinies Now’

In News by Richard CharkinFebruary 3, 20232 Comments

‘The future for Indian publishing is bright,’ writes Richard Charkin, reviewing its evolution ‘from carbon paper to digital innovations.’

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Richard Charkin: A Selective Year-End Assessment

In Feature Articles, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinDecember 31, 20221 Comment

Richard Charkin looks at several book publishing figures and estimates from 2022—and calls for ‘more rigorous analysis of data.’

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In England, Richard Charkin: Three Gifts for Publishing’s Christmas

In Feature Articles by Richard CharkinDecember 8, 20222 Comments

‘The real stars of this parable are the three Iranian sorcerers bearing gifts for our infant industry,’ writes Richard Charkin.

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Richard Charkin: Hard Times

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinNovember 17, 2022Leave a Comment

Richard Charkin’s ‘lessons for survival’ include making ‘cash flow and profit more important than prizes and warm feelings.’

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Richard Charkin in London: An Updated A-Z of Trade Publishing

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinNovember 7, 20223 Comments

Updating his first Publishing Perspectives column published four years ago, Richard Charkin offers a fresh look at trade book publishing.

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At Frankfurt: IPA Stages Its Second ‘Sustainability Summit’

In News by Roger TagholmOctober 28, 2022Leave a Comment

The Publishers Association’s Dan Conway called sustainability ‘the issue we will all be judged on in the future.”

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Richard Charkin’s Frankfurt, Day Four: ‘Suffering’

In News by Richard CharkinOctober 21, 2022Leave a Comment

The ‘essential elements of the Frankfurter Buchmesse experience,’ Richard Charkin says, come along with some suffering.

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