Peter Owen Publishers

Peter Owen started his company, aged twenty-four, six years after the Second World War. For nearly 60 years he has been an iconoclast within British publishing, pioneering the publication of some of the most revered and controversial authors of the last half-century, including Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Herman Hesse, Paul Bowles, Andre Gide and Yukio Mishima.

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'More online magazine startups are devoted to cheerfully non-topical discussions of ideas over many thousands of beautifully typeset words'.

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Jean Cocteau

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We are digitasing our archive, here some statistics

From a Random House commissioned demographic study based on 2012 Bowker Pubtrack, Forrester, and Pew data.   

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James Patterson giving cash to bookstores

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Coming soon No Ordinary Man by Donald P. McCrory, a biography of one of the most translated author of the world, Miguel de Cervantes.

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“I don’t strike out much. I write on … I do one draft. I do the editing in my head first … I very seldom change paragraphs and things around … I’ve heard that it’s very useful for people who do move things about to have a computer, but it wouldn’t suit me because I just write on.”

Muriel Spark on editing 

http://bookeditor.co.uk/2013/03/08/on-editing-muriel-spark/

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Open Access: driving innovation in academic markets?

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Pages in motion.

From p. 250-55 of The New Parley Library (1884). Original from Oxford University. Digitized November 27, 2006.

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Everybody loves Garamond

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Coming soon in both printed and ebook editions

Immoral Memories – An Autobiography 

Sergei Eisenstein

translated from the Russian by Herbert Marshall