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From: Georgia Beaverson <greenlinnet>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:51:14 -0500
Maia, I sympathize with your desire to see books outside the "norm". Why do publishers publish so many books that focus on teachers, schools, etc? It's because the library/school market is the backbone of the children's publishing industry. Schools and library buy books. This very narrow market isn't just frustrating for folks like you; it drives me as a children's writer up the wall. If I don't please the adults that purchase books for kids/teens, then I don't get published. It's that--for me, heartbreakingly--simple.
-Aiden Beaverson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Maia Cheli-Colando" To: "Hollis Rudiger" Cc: "Subscribers of ccbc-net" Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:03 PM Subject: [ccbc-net] teacher as parent, school as norm
Received on Wed 29 Sep 2004 04:51:14 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:51:14 -0500
Maia, I sympathize with your desire to see books outside the "norm". Why do publishers publish so many books that focus on teachers, schools, etc? It's because the library/school market is the backbone of the children's publishing industry. Schools and library buy books. This very narrow market isn't just frustrating for folks like you; it drives me as a children's writer up the wall. If I don't please the adults that purchase books for kids/teens, then I don't get published. It's that--for me, heartbreakingly--simple.
-Aiden Beaverson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Maia Cheli-Colando" To: "Hollis Rudiger" Cc: "Subscribers of ccbc-net" Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:03 PM Subject: [ccbc-net] teacher as parent, school as norm
Received on Wed 29 Sep 2004 04:51:14 PM CDT
