Monday, October 04, 2004
Vertical = Japanese Lit in Translation
Thanks to Anne Ishii over at Vertical Books for the box of review copies and postcards! Here's why I *heart* Vertical books:
1. This quote from The Globe and Mail on their founder: "Five years ago, an energetic, chain-smoking Japanese entrepeneur named Hiroki Sakai arrived in New York with a new and bold (and some said crazy) idea: to market Japanese popular fiction in North America. Sakai was not what one would call a literary man, nor did he speak much English. Yet he knew the book-selling business in Japan and was confident that Japanese literature could be commercially successful abroad... A good story, after all, was a good story anywhere..."
Anyone who can walk into NYC, start a new publishing house, and put out quality books deserves support.
2. Sakai went out and got Chip Kidd to design all of his covers. All of them.
3. There's enough Japanese Manga in the US market, it's refreshing to see fiction coming out.
4. They apparently treat their summer interns well. (scroll to Aug 30, 2004 entry)
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1. This quote from The Globe and Mail on their founder: "Five years ago, an energetic, chain-smoking Japanese entrepeneur named Hiroki Sakai arrived in New York with a new and bold (and some said crazy) idea: to market Japanese popular fiction in North America. Sakai was not what one would call a literary man, nor did he speak much English. Yet he knew the book-selling business in Japan and was confident that Japanese literature could be commercially successful abroad... A good story, after all, was a good story anywhere..."
Anyone who can walk into NYC, start a new publishing house, and put out quality books deserves support.
2. Sakai went out and got Chip Kidd to design all of his covers. All of them.
3. There's enough Japanese Manga in the US market, it's refreshing to see fiction coming out.
4. They apparently treat their summer interns well. (scroll to Aug 30, 2004 entry)
