/lit/ - Literature

>>18420320
no, and none

are they going to have a sale? there's a lot of shit i would totes cop

>>18420320
Wtf why

Idgaf got a m1 iPad and it's the ultimate reading machine

>>18420320
I mean there's no new books worth printing so that sounds like a good idea.

>>18420320
Looking at the prices I'm hardly surprised they shut down

So does this mean OWCs wont be made anymore?

>>18420320
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuucckk

>>18420320
The end of print media is accelerating.

>>18420367
my book will come out sometime soon anon how the fuck would you read it now huh

>>18420320
The fuck
why?

that sucks but I don't see how any publishers are able to turn a profit nowadays anyway.

That's a shame OWCs have in my experience been one of the better choices for cheap printings of classics.

Wtf
what if the digital age suddenly ends?

>>18420377
good question

>>18420367
b-but i was writing one :(

IT'S OVER

>>18420420
maybe print editions will be outsourced and distributed by a competitor like Penguin.

>>18420417
If it suddenly ends, i can assure you we'll have bigger problems than the lack of printed books

they were the only decent paperbacks in my opinion. what a shame.

>>18420360
>>18420392
>The closure of Oxuniprint, which will take place on 27 August subject to consultation with employees, will result in the loss of 20 jobs. OUP said it follows a “continued decline in sales”, which has been “exacerbated by factors relating to the pandemic”.

pic related is what their union had to say

>>18420442

>>18420442
Oh so it was just a shitty misleading headline and very little is going to change. Ok.

>>18420459
just a further nail in publishing's coffin. Penguin is taking over Simon & Schuster. it's fucking over bros.

>>18420320
>>18420442
Sounds like a good bong breaking. All the jobs are going to city slickers elsewhere. Mighty fine books of literature will still be printed.

>>18420432
but are they the same?

>>18420471
Fuck Penshit.

>tfw born too late to take part in the publishing boom of the 80s
>tfw born just in time to see the whole thing collapse in front of your eyes forever

Start hoarding Dickens and Joseph Conrad while you can.

Physical books are a threat to the globohomo pseudo-communist oligarchy.
They want to get rid of print media because they can’t control it.
I hate referencing dystopian fiction because it is cliche but Fahrenheit 451 was rather prescient

Wtf this is crazy. Today while reading something about the oxford comma I learned of the OUP's existence for the first time in my life and hours later I find out its been deleted. What's God trying to tell me?

>>18420442
>"muh pandemic"
they just wanted it closed from day one

>>18420518
that you're a clueless zoomer

>>18420518
apply to oxford university and find out

Uh, so do Oxuniprint print all of Oxford University Press's books or is it something smaller?

>>18420662
>The Oxuniprint site in Kidlington employs 20 staff and produces flyers, booklets, brochures, newsletters and magazines for internal and external clients.
I mean it's sad but idk if this is saying what all of you are saying it does

stay away from my Oxford World's Classics you neoliberal faggots I will NEVER read penguin or vintage you can all go to HELL

>>18420709
amen, brother

>>18420709
>Implying the next editions aren’t going to be pozzed.

>>18420442
So the printing press is done, but not OUP. They're outsourcing. Well I guess it's shit, but maybe those employees learn not to prostrate to globohomo as much.

I have their Canadian dictionary on my desk with my coffee on it, but had to go see what else they publish. what a bunch of CRAP. no wonder they're in trouble. during the pandemic no less, when everyone is stuck at home masturbating, playing video games, watching Netflix and READING

Quality > quantity

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>18420406
>>18420383
Physical books sell more than ebooks
>Publishers of books in all formats made almost $26 billion in revenue last year in the U.S., with print making up $22.6 billion and e-books taking $2.04 billion, according to the Association of American Publishers’ annual report 2019. Those figures include trade and educational books, as well as fiction.
>“I think the e-book bubble has burst somewhat, sales are flattening off, I think the physical object is very appealing. Publishers are producing incredibly gorgeous books, so the cover designs are often gorgeous, they’re beautiful objects,” she told CNBC.
>Genres that do well in print include nature, cookery and children’s books, while people prefer to read crime, romantic novels and thrillers via e-reader, according to Nielsen Book International.
>While millennials are sometimes blamed for killing industries, it’s actually younger people who appear to be popularizing print. Sixty-three percent of physical book sales in the U.K. are to people under the age of 44, while 52% of e-book sales are to those over 45, according to Nielsen.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/physical-books-still-outsell-e-books-and-heres-why.html

>>18420518
>its been deleted.
Its printing arm it's being shut down but not the press itself.

Wtf why the penguin hate? Am I supposed to not be buying their books?

>>18421770
I love Penguin and Oxford. I like the fact that they are dedicated to give the reader a note apparatus for such a low price. In my country this is unheard of.

>>18420442
With operations now totally in India and the Philippines, expect a lower quality product. Sad that the peoples who invented and proliferated printing are now losing a space to continue that tradition.

Global elites are ramping up knowledge scarcity. Clown world is just beginning. Enjoy the ride.

Real question, why do we need Oxford to publish a bunch of public domain books?

>>18422330
Because their notes and everything else are an immense bonus for such a low price. The press itself will not die btw, just the printing section.

>>18422337
what if I don't want their foreword and """"""notes""""""

>>18420471
>Penguin is taking over Simon & Schuster
wow, it's real. Random Simon Schuster Penguin

> Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster
> ViacomCBS agreed to sell the 96-year-old company in a deal that potentially creates a megapublisher.

The biggest book publisher in the United States is about to get bigger. ViacomCBS has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House for more than $2 billion in a deal that will create the first megapublisher.

Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the United States, is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Adding Simon & Schuster, the third largest publisher, would create a book behemoth, a combination that could trigger antitrust concerns.

The deal announced on Wednesday includes provisions that would protect ViacomCBS in the event that a sale is squashed by authorities. Bertelsmann would pay what is known as a termination fee if the deal does not go through.

The sale of the company will profoundly reshape the publishing industry, increasingly a winner-take-all business in which the largest companies compete for brand-name authors and guaranteed best-sellers.

The book business has seen wave after wave of consolidation in the past decade, with the merger of Penguin and Random House in 2013, News Corp’s purchase of the romance publisher Harlequin, and Hachette Book Group’s acquisition of Perseus Books. This fall, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced it was exploring a sale of its trade publishing division, and could be an attractive target for a large publishing company like Macmillan or Hachette.

Simon & Schuster, which publishes prominent authors like Stephen King, Don DeLillo, Bob Woodward, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Walter Isaacson, had long been rumored to be the next big company to be put up for sale, and it made an attractive prize for larger publishing houses seeking to grow through acquisitions. It has a vast backlist of more than 30,000 titles.

So the the headline should be 'Oxford University Press will no longer print in the UK,' right? that's what im getting.

All those Oxford editions of the classics will still be printed ?

>>18422340
Don't read it or don't buy their books. No one's forcing you, man.

>>18422352
>Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the United States, is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
wtf, I though they were a British company

>>18422352
>Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the United States, is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
the eternal kraut

>>18422391
Correct.

>>18422391
Yeah
>>18422405
Penguin are and were until they merged with Random House

>>18422399
> don't buy their books
yes, that's exactly what caused their current situation

>>18422424
Only partially. The article mentions outsourcing being the biggest cause.

>>18420442
Hopefully the outsourced editions of their world classics paperbacks will still retain the good quality they’re known for.

Since when did this board become this retarded?

>>18422439
the weak britbong wagie fears the strong cambodian 11 year old working 14 hours a day at the printing press sweatshop

>>18422391
Not sure about you but I don't want poos in the loos handling my Oxford Classics.

>>18422455
why do /pol/tards hate Indians? I never understood that meme

the only problem here is that OUP will become a zombie brand, slapped onto anything and everything. But that's already been the case for years whatever.
Honestly, with my home library, publishing can die tomorrow and i'll be alright, So few people read the classics that im ready fro them to become specialty items. Already all the good editions have to be hunted down second hand.


A little sad, but i'll be alright.

>>18420366
>it's the ultimate reading machine
If you have low standards

>>18422468
Because they have dirty left hands and are now going to be touching our books.

>>18420442
>socialist grifter cope
Comfy read right before bed

>>18421718
There's plenty of reasons that people intuitively prefer print.
Reading ebooks isn't very comfortable for the eyeball. And ebooks aren't more convenient for casual reading, as compared to other mediums.
If you think about other physical mediums, like a DVD, there's a graduation between the physical copy and the media itself. The book might be the words themselves, but the book is the book, the abstract experience and the material are uniquely cohesive.

Unironically the meme event that signals the end of the old world order.
Its over

>>18420455
:( poor monkey

>>18420514
I just download book pdfs then print it at my uni library. Cost a couple bucks

>>18422970
Genuinely believe this as well. Make sure to hoard as many books as possible in physical and PDF, even if you don't plan on reading them
We're about to go full dystopia and Dark Ages-mode, where they make sure knowledge is only in the hands of a few elites. All of this is by design.

>>18420366
>not reading on an e-ink device

>>18420417
better build your own printing press bucko

>>18421718
>>18422807
I think its because most people are not dumb as to BUY ebooks. 90% of books I read are ebooks, but I have barely bought 2 ebooks in the last ten years, while I might have easily bought a much larger number of physical books (I don't pirate ebooks though, I don't need to, mostly because I am only interested in reading old books and they more often than not turn out to be in the public domain)

>>18422970
>>18423061
1)take meds
2)gutenberg.org
3)archive.org

>>18420523
This.
The pandemic has been an excuse to change things that haven't been directly effected. How has printing been effected by Covid-19? It's just a great excuse to lay people off.

This is an ad.

>>18422337
>Because their notes and everything else are an immense bonus for such a low price.
cringe

>>18422444
Ha

>>18420320
Get fucked island monkeys
>What books of theirs are essential to own in physical form?
No idea, the only books where I kind of need a physical form are the ones where I look at drawings, maps etc. - my kindle isn't good for that.
>>18420442
lol

>>18420473
Based

>>18420320
Women, not even once

>>18423061
if you have extra hard drive spaces and a vpn, start seeding part of libgen

>>18422444
lower quality at the same price

>>18420442
never underestimate the relentless focus of the british upper class on punishing british workers for those three decades or so they managed to secure good wages and a high standard of living

>>18420417
all those photos of brunch...lost...like tears in the rain

>>18420320
At least there's still penguin.

Oh shit I preordered an upcoming OWC, wonder if it was printed already. I mean owcs arent amazing quality but serviceable paperbacks fucking sucks man.

>>18420442
publish or perish

>>18420320
I would have thought they would have gotten more business during lockdown time considering more people had time to read.

if only you knew how bad things really are.jpg

>>18420320
Good thing I don't give a damn about Anglo literature. Gallimard till I die.

>>18426053
kek

>>18420709
Their books as shitly made tho, literally I can wipe the print with my finger

>>18426884
Why dat. Redpill me

>>18423712
You're gonna wish you had a physical library when the digital book burning starts. We're not far off at all.

>>18422455
>>18422468

Indians are the only people under 120 years old practicing oral recitation of English language poetry and uploading it for public consumption, with the sole exception of over enunciating low t faggots and women. They're a Commonwealth nation and I consider them a legitimate heir to the tradition, along with their own ancient literature. As long as SOMEONE preserves our classics, I don't fucking care who it is. Art transcends time, it certainly transcends race.

>>18428894

Sorry, "low t faggots and wome who overlay every piece with shitty ambient music that always distracts and detracts from the reading"

>>18421718
>I think the physical object is very appealing.
It might just be me but when i read stuff online it doesnt stick in my head as long as when I read it on print. That might just be retard me though. In any regards too much screen time hurts your eyes.