Oct 29 2009
Caribbean: Rethinking online publishing
[Nicholas Laughlin, Global Voices, October 26th, 2009]:
The anglophone Caribbean’s small but energetic literary blogosphere has taken notice of a new arrival to its conversation. Caribbean Book Blog, created by the St. Lucian journalist Tony Williams, aims to “inform writers and readers about the latest developments in the international book trade and how they are likely [to] affect the literary communities in the Caribbean and other small-island states.” Since launching on 11 October, 2009, Caribbean Book Blog has posted a series of thoughtful, statistics-laden essays on the issues facing Caribbean publishers, writers, and readers, at a time when literary publishing around the world is grappling with financial hardship and technological change. Williams’s posts have provoked thought and discussion both in the blog’s comments fields and elsewhere.