{"product_id":"my-back-pages-richard-charkin-9781739265731","title":"My Back Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Charkin's experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half century he has been (at different times) a scientific and medical publisher, a journal publisher, a digital publisher and a general publisher. He has worked for family-owned, publicly-owned, university-owned companies and start-ups. In this memoir he uses his unrivalled experience to illustrate the profound changes that have affected the identity and practices but not the purpose of publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf course there are stories about well-known personalities he has encountered in his career - Madonna, Jeffrey Archer, Robert Maxwell, Paul Hamlyn, Mohammed Al-Fayed and many more. But his primary purpose is to provide an insider's account of the social, technological, commercial and geographical developments as seen through the eyes of a gifted all-round publisher who has made a very significant contribution to the profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an insider's account of the last fifty years of the publishing industry: the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eessential guide for writers, readers, students of publishing, and book industry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprofessionals including librarians, booksellers, literary agents, printers, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecopyright lawyers, digital experts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Charkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1739265734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781739265731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marble Hill Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Richard Charkin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133067063551,"sku":"9781739265731","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6eb4caf2-4f50-48a4-b0bd-65efadf2f371.jpg?v=1687483890","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-back-pages-richard-charkin-9781739265731","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}