Charlie Hebdo: murders a twisted vote of confidence in the power of ink and paper

There’s something about ink, paper and the printing press that has always bothered tyrants and those afraid of ideas.Was there a single old hand in the world of magazines who didn’t read the stories about the demand for copies of the post-massacre edition of Charlie Hebdo, raise their eyebrows at the 5m-plus print run it took to eventually satisfy that demand and wonder at the people even in this country who were apparently going out of their way to make sure they got hold of a copy, without thinking to themselves, “that is a terrible price to pay for record sales figures”?I haven’t heard anybody say it but I can’t have been the only one who thought it. It is one of the great ironies of print publishing that surges in demand always appear without warning and always catch publishers unprepared to take advantage of them. This was the grimly ironic exception. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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