UK indie publisher Marion Boyers is no more:
“Without Borders [being so active], the whole retail end is uneven. You have one company dominating the high street, one online, so it’s impossible for independent publishers to budget with any kind of confidence”.
She added the costs of marketing a book that was shortlisted for an award were prohibitive “which meant I was no longer wanting to take on literary fiction, because I couldn’t afford to enter prizes”.
[Via bookninja]
