Marginalia — on reading
What do readers want?
UWA Publishing Australian publishing book industry on reading Publishing
‘Historically speaking,’ said one of the visiting publishers at the Australia Council’s 2016 publishing scheme, ‘Koreans read for educational purposes. Only recently have we started reading for pleasure. This is why non-fiction books are very big in our market: business books, science…but literary fiction is starting to sell very well.’
On Reading: how our reading habits might change the way we think
UWA Publishing C S Lewis on reading reading reading habits Socrates
Words by Charlotte Guest, Publishing Officer at UWA Publishing
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Socrates bemoaned the advent of writing over oratory for what he saw as its negative impact upon memory: if all knowledge is documented there would be no need to retain it in our minds and our souls. Now, in the twenty-first century, we fear the impact of typing and electronic texts upon memory and learning, majority opinion being that we process information more thoroughly if we hand write notes as opposed to typing them.