The Mysterious Case of Carter Brown: or, Who Really Killed the Australian Author?

Considers the exporting of intellectual property and the ways Sydney publisher Horwits Publications, author Alan Geoffrey Yates and multinational conglomerate Signet negotiated geographical and cultural boundaries to produce one of Australia's successful literary exports. Evolution of Australian pa...

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Publicado en:Australian Literary Studies Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 74 - 89
Autor principal: Johnson-Woods, Toni
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Australian Literary Studies 2004
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Sumario:Considers the exporting of intellectual property and the ways Sydney publisher Horwits Publications, author Alan Geoffrey Yates and multinational conglomerate Signet negotiated geographical and cultural boundaries to produce one of Australia's successful literary exports. Evolution of Australian paperback publishers to hardcover publishers; Details of a contract for Yates' Peter Carter Brown novels; Procedure followed in editing novels of Yates submitted to Horwitz and Signet; Marketing campaign for Signet in the U.S.; Impact of the pressure of writing deadlines on the quality of the novels.