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<p>Richard Charkin's experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half century he has been (at different times) a scientific and medical publisher a journal publisher a digital publisher and a general publisher. He has worked for family-owned publicly-owned university-owned companies and start-ups. In this memoir he uses his unrivalled experience to illustrate the profound changes that have affected the identity and practices but not the purpose of publishing.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course there are stories about well-known personalities he has encountered in his career - Madonna Jeffrey Archer Robert Maxwell Paul Hamlyn Mohammed Al-Fayed and many more. But his primary purpose is to provide an insider's account of the social technological commercial and geographical developments as seen through the eyes of a gifted all-round publisher who has made a very significant contribution to the profession.</p><p><br></p><p>This is an insider's account of the last fifty years of the publishing industry: the </p><p>essential guide for writers readers students of publishing and book industry </p><p>professionals including librarians booksellers literary agents printers </p><p>copyright lawyers digital experts. </p>