{"id":257016,"date":"2007-10-22T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/22\/house-of-anansi-turns-40\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:16","slug":"house-of-anansi-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/22\/house-of-anansi-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Anansi Turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20071020.wxanansi20gta\/BNStory\/Entertainment\/?page=rss&#38;id=RTGAM.20071020.wxanansi20gta\">Globe and Mail<\/a> has a nice overview article on indie Canadian press House of Anansi&#8217;s fortieth anniversary. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The environment says it all about the brightened outlook at Anansi. One British publisher recently called it &#8220;the red-hot centre of literary publishing in Canada.&#8221; Owned since 2002 by Toronto businessman and poetry enthusiast Scott Griffin, the company last year reported sales of just under $5-million and now employs a full-time staff of 20. It wasn&#8217;t so long ago, when Anansi was still part of the now-defunct Stoddart empire, that there were three staffers and annual sales hovered around $400,000. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Griffin was not a publishing neophyte when he poured more than $400,000 into Anansi in 2002 just as its parent plunged into bankruptcy protection. He had founded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2000. But he has been taken aback by &#8220;the time, thought and money the initiative has required.&#8221; The publishing industry, to his mind, is &#8220;structurally flawed . . . The returns system, for instance, means you never know if you&#8217;ve actually sold a book. Then there are these huge advances paid to authors that don&#8217;t really relate to reality. And you have these thin profit margins and all these middle men. It&#8217;s created a kind of gridlock where you have a lot of bright people trying to get around the obstacles, instead of removing the obstacles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail has a nice overview article on indie Canadian press House of Anansi&#8217;s fortieth anniversary. The environment says it all about the brightened outlook at Anansi. One British publisher recently called it &#8220;the red-hot centre of literary publishing in Canada.&#8221; Owned since 2002 by Toronto businessman and poetry enthusiast Scott Griffin, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361566,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257016\/revisions\/361566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}