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'The whole creative industry would be undermined,' writes Richard Charkin, by the copyright exception promoted in the United Kingdom.

Richard Charkin offers 'a heartfelt apology,' writing that he now finds literary agents 'trusted go-betweens and understanding partners.'

The view from Richard Charkin on issues of translators' credit and compensation is that translators 'should be careful what they wish for.'

Richard Charkin writes that 'bringing in outsiders can catalyze extraordinary change and growth' in the book business.

The trick in digital times, says Richard Charkin, is for publishing's senior management to 'back untested ideas' outside their comfort zones.

While vying for a British Book Award this year, Richard Charkin asks, 'When will publishers’ egos be large enough?'

'Perhaps we should consider courtesy in our industry,' writes Richard Charkin. And even Boris Johnson doesn't escape this one.

'Improving publishing by measuring things' is Richard Charkin's intent in proposing 15 metrics for examination in the new year.

This article looks at a recent study in Nature Communications that applied various flow-visualization techniques and simulated three-dimensional folded sheets to achieve quantitative agreement between theory and experimental results.

The season puts Richard Charkin in mind of a dozen things he'd like to see arrive, come about, or evolve by Twelfth Night.