New mail from Usa, by Linda Nordstrom (leggi in italiano)
Dear Michele, let me give a little input on what happens on this side of ocean with this editor’s note Okes of OR publishing that i’ve received this week. I hope the article will contribute to the debate on the issue of digital book that, as I understand, it is also felt by you.
Herewith figures most of us have heard in some variant: half of U.S. book sales will be digital by 2015 and brick-and-mortar book sales will drop by 50% in that time.
I’m not a theoretician: I’m an editor and publisher, and what I am looking for is a practical solution to fix things, something that can be implemented. I’ve been in independent publishing for the last twenty-five years, and each year, at each of the five companies I’ve worked with, the scenario has been pretty much the same: declining revenues despite occasional upward blips, the stores getting sparser and those that remain, skipping titles more and more.
Due anni fa, una miscela velenosa di cattiva economia,unitamente ad una regolamentazione molto permissiva, ha fatto saltare letterarlmente in aria il sistema finanziario degli Stati Uniti causando la sua fase discendente e ripida dai tempi della Grande Depressione.
Paul Auster è stato definito “uno dei più grandi romanzieri viventi America” da più di un giornale o rivista letteraria o, comunque la si guardi, da molta parte delle comunità intellettuali esistenti.” 
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