The villain little duckling | The press

The other day. However, at Vaugeois, I told the bookseller Marie-Hélène that it was a bit that I had not been blown by a Quebec novel. Moreover, His face has enlightened.

“Come. In addition, come here, I’m going to show you one,” she said, training to the pocket book department of the Quebec bookstore. Consequently, She took a very small work. Furthermore, Take care of your fall From Flora Balzano, published recently at Library Québécoise (BQ), and tended it to me.

“It’s really a good novel. Similarly, »»

I had read the villain little duckling | press chronicle of the colleague Chantal Guy on this cult novel¹. Consequently, Released in 1991, this text with acid humor had a great commercial and critical success. In addition, Unwitting for a long time, Bq has just reissued him in his pocket.

My library covers three walls. Therefore, A huge window pierces the fourth. Furthermore, Books and light are enough for me as a decor. However, I do not know how you manage your library, but I put the books by publishing houses. Moreover, I find it prettier.

So I placed Balzano’s book with BQ’s titles. In addition, next to those of Claire Martin, Marc Séguin, Hadassa of Myriam Beaudoin, whose work I love, the very beautiful Barefoot in dawn of Félix Leclerc, Memory hole by Hubert Aquin and the two novels by Guillaume Vigneault. Similarly, It only makes only ten villain little duckling | press books. Furthermore, There are also some titles of Boréal Compact, three Gabrielle Roy, books by Marie Laberge and Dany Laferrière.

My library has nearly 400 pocket novels, but less than 20 published here. Nevertheless, How is it possible? Furthermore, Because French publishers dominate the pocket book market in Quebec.

The pocket book was born in Great Britain in 1935. Furthermore, when Penguin Books wanted to offer novels of great authors in a compact and inexpensive format. Therefore, France has followed suit in the 1950s. Furthermore, But the literary environment has grinned teeth. Are these real books and real readers? wonders Jean-Paul Sartre.

And by making it accessible to as many people as possible, does the small format not devalue literature? Yes, Sartre was snub. He found the vulgar pocket book and he was not the villain little duckling | press only one. But the tall man changed his idea when the thousands of pocket pounds he sold started to boost his. bank account. Money talksas they say to the Flore coffee.

“The pocket book has really entered the customs in France,” said Cécile Boyer-Runge, director general of Point editions, one of the French giants. “He managed to fit into the chronology of the French publishing. A novel appears in large format, then in pocket, and people are waiting for the pocket. »»

No. no one laughs villain little duckling | press at pocket books today in France where more than one book sold out of four in pocket. Publishers and points have developed marketing and presentation strategies. The covers are neat, the paper is beautiful. The nasty duckling has changed well as it grows up.

The pocket even has two lounges from the book devoted to it. Read in pocket in Gradignan. near Bordeaux, and Créteil in pocket, in the suburbs of Paris, where 200 authors were present in the last edition.

In Quebec, reality is different. The rights villain little duckling | press of international bestsellers usually belong to foreign houses. It forces Quebec publishers to fall back on their own production. Several houses have pocket collections, but the format is not highlighted as much as it is in France.

Some Quebec publishers try to reverse the steam a little. Boréal has just swarmed his Boréal Compact collection. Four titles inaugurate the new graphic grid, of which Yellowstone’s twilights From Louis Hamelin, in bookstores from August 5.

Québecor also moves and abandons the 10/10 collection. From now on. the titles of its publishing houses, including VLB publisher, of the man and Stanke, will be published in pocket with Typo, where we have also revised the format and the presentation. First eleven titles appeared in May. whose thrillers We were sea saltfrom Roxanne Bouchard, and The cry of the deerfrom Johanne Seymour.

“Many Quebec publishers publish their own books in their pockets. ” explains Martin Balthazar, principal director of the Ville-Marie group (from the Quebecor Média Book sector). “Our objective is to offer other publishers to publish their pockets at Typo. To create a synergy. »»

Will Quebec succeed in carving out a place worthy of the name in the market? We try, says Martin Balthazar.

“When you see a novel and you like the blanket, you take it, you read the fourth,” said Cécile Boyer-Rnge. If you like it villain little duckling | press and the book costs 25 euros, you may hesitate. If it’s 8 euros, you have a good chance of buying it. Maybe buy two. The pocket is often an impulsive purchase. »»

The bookseller Marie-Hélène Vaugeois is delighted with the increase in the Quebec offer. “It is often said that young people do not read. But that is not true. They read, and many pocket books. »»

Money talks. In the 6th^e Arrondissement like rue Maguire in Quebec.

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