By way of introduction

A warm welcome to my new publishing blog, The Peripatetic Publisher. I have been planning this for a while but never quite managed to shake the idea that it is a self-indulgent exercise of interest only to me. We shall see.

You will find posts here in a number of categories that fascinate, bemuse or infuriate me, on issues in publishing past present and future. There is a category on imprints, which remain the most enduring way in which publishers announce and promote their products - and which survive all of the corporate shenanigans that make parent companies come and go - you will find these posts under the heading Imprimatur Rex: a category on Books They Don't Want You to Read - partly highlighting banned books but also looking at publishers' role as gatekeepers and occasionally as censors: a category on current issues and future trends, informed particularly by my experience of the last five years as Senior Business Consultant to Publishing Technology, the largest supplier of technology and related services for the publishing industry -you'll see these under Tech Trends. And some more personal posts from my checkered publishing past as and when they fit in -  The Ones That Got Away (and some that didn't...).

Nick W-W