Telling stories: between your own and intercontinental marketing. An interview with Francesca De Gottardo – Marketer
Those who set out on entrepreneurial ventures in contexts very different from their own often cite “inspirational” books (adventure stories, essays on development, foreign poetry). Is there a book that pushed you to go, or that made you feel part of a narrative closer to your own ambitions? I don’t think there’s a single book […]
Publishing to stay independent: promoting original thought. An interview with Mkuki na Nyota – Mkuki na Nyota Publishing Tanzania
Mkuki na Nyota is an independent publishing house, founded in 1981 in response to the absence of quality local publishing in Tanzania. We put a series of questions about the independence of African literature to the head of the publishing house. Four decades on from its founding, what are the main lessons you’ve drawn from […]
Independent publishing in the neighborhoods: stories of happy spaces. Interview with Erica Brenna – Libreria Incipit 23
Amazon knows what you’ve read, what you’ve bought, what you looked at while scrolling through social media. An independent bookshop, by contrast, is perhaps the only place where a book can still surprise you: does that function have economic value, or is it a cultural battle fought “at a loss”? Independent bookshops fight exactly this […]