| Sumario: | The article features Peter Owen, founder of Peter Owen Publishers, who celebrated 60 years in the British publishing industry as of June 2011. It states that Owen was born in Nuremberg, Germany to a German-Jewish father, and moved to England at the age of five to learn English. It reports that after apprenticing with several people, he later set up his company and eventually published "Siddhartha," by Herman Hesse. Owen explains that books were never greatly valued in the country, compared to other European nations, and lauds the growth of e-publishing.
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