Sep 19, 2026
Bloomsbury Publishing has been in business for almost forty years. Last year it earned £361.0 million. Over the past five years it’s taken in more than £1.4 Billion. It’s one of, if not the most successful publishing ventures of the past century. How does this work? I asked Founder and Chief...
Aug 27, 2024
Richard Charkin has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Mensch Publishing. He is former President of The Book Society, the International Publishers Association and the...
Jan 3, 2023
A perceptive devotee of the podcast told
me last week that he thought I was an ignoramus.
'You don't think it takes talent to
be a photographer (referring to something said during this
conversation with Michael Torosian, maker of fine press photography
books,
here)?'
'I do think it takes talent,' I
responded. 'I...
Feb 18, 2022
Richard Charkin is a British publishing
executive. He founded Mensch Publishing in 2018. Prior to this he
was Executive Director of Bloomsbury (2007 to 2018). Over the years
he has held executive positions at Pergamon Press, Oxford
University Press, and Reed International/Reed Elsevier. He is the
former Chief Executive...
Dec 21, 2020
Virago is a
London-based British publishing company committed to publishing
women's writing and books on "feminist" topics. Established
by women in the 1970s in tandem with the Women's Liberation
Movement (WLM), Virago has done much to address inequitable gender
dynamics in the publishing world, and, unlike...