In Haaretz Maya Sela reports that now Top publisher stops accepting new writers as protest against bookselling duopoly, as:
Certainly, some are convinced the situation does not look great:
The New Library literary imprint has announced that it has stopped accepting book manuscripts from new writers, as a protest against what it terms the intolerable situation of the local book market.(See the announcement here.)
Certainly, some are convinced the situation does not look great:
The imprint's literary editor, Prof. Menachem Perry, has been in the industry for more than 40 years and has much to say about the current state of the market.
"For five years I've been raising the alarm about the imminent national disaster, and all of the darkest prophecies are being realized," Perry says. "We're in the final moments."
Perry says that over the next two years all of Israel's literary publishers will collapse, like dominoes.