John B. Thompson’s new title ‘Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing’ gets a look from Richard Charkin.
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By Richard Charkin | @RCharkin
‘Every Skirmish, Every Battle’
As those who know me will attest, I am not a huge book reader–or indeed a reader of huge books, although I have published quite a few giants. I tend to concentrate on reading the books I’m lucky enough to publish and re-reading my favorite fiction authors, normally when on holiday.
Richard Charkin
What’s really exceptional, given my attention deficit disorder–most acute during tedious sales conference presentations–is that I should read a 510-page, 500-words-per-page, business history book.
Teaching Directing in Covid Times
Posted on: April 12, 2021
By Regge Life. A producer, director and writer for film and television, he is currently the Senior Distinguished Director in Residence at Emerson College in Boston, MA. He is the author of Becoming an Actor’s Director.
When the lockdown began in March of 2020, the college where I teach moved all classes online, so the teaching of directing, became problematic. Film and television courses are production classes so there is a lot of collaboration – sharing equipment, assisting each other in close quarters, not to mention the actor/director conversations that for an Actor’s Director, needs to be personal and intimate. So, professors of directing classes had to figure out what to do. I felt at that time, because of the positive feedback I received from students about my techniques of teaching director preparation, that my classes could continue in the online world.
Richard Charkin: On the Long Walk to Audiobooks
Logging more than 12 miles per day on London’s walkways, Richard Charkin’s pavement-pounding peripatetics have him exploring ‘the importance of audio and audiobooks.’
On London’s Oxford Street, February 25. Image – iStockphoto: VV Shots
By Richard Charkin | @RCharkin
‘I Started by Listening to Music’
I suffer from a pre-COVID-19 form of mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Actually, it’s even more acute during the pandemic. It’s called walking. I walk roughly 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) every day.
Richard Charkin
I walk for health, physical and mental. But 20 kilometers a day, which takes approximately four hours, can be boring, particularly when one is obliged not to venture too far from home because of lockdown restrictions. To counter the
Richard Charkin: Brexit Ushers British Publishing Into New Territory
An inevitable ‘sea change in trade book publishing,’ writes Richard Charkin, may accelerate as Brexit puts the UK industry’s EU exclusivity into a new light.
A shot from February 6 in London’s Parliament Square. Image – iStockphoto: VV Shots
Editor’s note: This week, contacts at the UK’s Publishers Association tell us that Brexit’s impact on publishing still are unclear, but many in the business have worried aloud for years that the tradition of British exclusivity in Europe could be threatened. When The Bookseller’s Mark Chandler and Katherine Cowdrey wrote about the issue (February 9), we asked Richard Charkin in London to give us his take on the situation. Porter Anderson