| Sumario: | The article reports that a year on from In Full Colour, a landmark report on diversity in publishing, several Arts Council England (ACE)-backed projects are laying the foundations of lasting change. The perception of publishing as a bastion of liberal values was challenged in March 2004, when The Bookseller and ACE produced In Full Colour: Cultural Diversity in Book Publishing Today, the first in-depth study of the subject in the industry, as part of ACE's decibel project. The biggest shock of all was that the laissez-faire attitude towards diversity meant publishers were missing out on the disposable income of Britain's black and Asian communities, worth an estimated £32bn. Minority ethnic authors complained that publishers limited their expectations of black and Asian writing.
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