Roger Sutton

It would be interesting to know if some major publishers were more on board the diversity train than others, but I'm guessing you would find their efforts fairly similar, adjusted for size. No, I was looking more for just what you mention, a sense of the raw numbers of diverse books published by trade, educational, and small presses. Thanks!

Posted : Apr 03, 2017 04:52

Debbie Reese

When I did a close look at Fiction/US Publishers in their 2014 log of books by/abt Native peoples, it was about half from major publishers (Big 5) and half from small ones. The ones from Big 5 were ones that I had reviewed and not recommended. I think that was the year when Ghost Hawk came out. Of the ones from the small presses, I recommended all but one. In that group was Gansworth's If I Ever Get Out of Here. I have a post on that. Here's one for 2015 that has similar results. https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-close-look-at-ccbcs-2015-data-on.html My own counts are similar to their's overall. More books by/abt Native people are being published in Canada than in the US. This is because Canada subsidizes small presses. I'm trying to remember if said that in her interview with Martha. Their log for books by/abt Native people includes Canada or US as publisher. I don't know if they do that for logs of other groups. I have to study this (or maybe not) to know with certainty, but it seems that nonfiction series gets re-done by publishers periodically. Not every year. I could look that up, I think, in the Guide database. My guess is that you want to know if there is a major publisher who is doing more diverse books than others?

Posted : Mar 31, 2017 09:50