Comments on: Is it time for a change in publishing black lit? http://www.popcultureshock.com/is-it-time-for-a-change-in-publishing-black-lit/46463/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: WriteBlack http://www.popcultureshock.com/is-it-time-for-a-change-in-publishing-black-lit/46463/comment-page-1/#comment-541959 WriteBlack Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:38:24 +0000 http://www.popcultureshock.com/?p=46463#comment-541959 It's fundamentally about raising awareness and getting people to buy the books that are out there. For black authors, it's about reminding -- or informing -- readers black and nonblack that there's more to black literature than Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Richard Wright. The people who run the publishing industry aren't stupid. When they see that there's Real Money in publishing and really promoting books by black authors, they'll do it. I like author Carleen Brice's humorous attempt at getting at the heart of this matter by declaring December to be Buy a Book By A Black Author and Give It To Somebody Not Black Month (I'll have a short interview with Brice on this subject up at my site Sunday, Dec. 21). It’s fundamentally about raising awareness and getting people to buy the books that are out there. For black authors, it’s about reminding — or informing — readers black and nonblack that there’s more to black literature than Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Richard Wright.

The people who run the publishing industry aren’t stupid. When they see that there’s Real Money in publishing and really promoting books by black authors, they’ll do it.

I like author Carleen Brice’s humorous attempt at getting at the heart of this matter by declaring December to be Buy a Book By A Black Author and Give It To Somebody Not Black Month (I’ll have a short interview with Brice on this subject up at my site Sunday, Dec. 21).

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