Meeting 1001 Publishers
I received an interesting email recently inviting me, along with various other graduates from masters programmes in the Netherlands, for a meeting today at the offices of Uitgeverij 1001, a publishing house based here in Amsterdam. They are interested in doing something in the line of bringing out a new book, but at the moment things are still very much up in the air – basically, we were asked to come along and just have a general discussion about the sort of things that might be interesting topics for a publication.
It was certainly an interesting meeting, although I must say that there were a lot of familiar faces – more than half of those present were former (and one current) DAI students!
After a few hours we were not really too much further forward towards anything concrete, but a lot of very good discussion had taken place. We agreed to go away and think about things for a few months, and perhaps meet again before Christmas.
This type of working is quite a surprising departure from what I would expect from a publishing house, but in fact 1001 Publishers do seek to do things a bit differently. I was very encouraged by the discussions we had, and I really hope that I can be involved in something with them in the future.
