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Philip Pullman: authors can't make a living from books any more
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Philip Pullman poses with a copy of his new novel, La Belle Sauvage=C2=A0CR=
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19 OCTOBER 2017 =E2=80=A2 12:19AMMost authors can no longer make a living f=
rom writing, Philip Pullman has said, as High Street chains and online reta=
ilers such as Amazon compete to sell books at the lowest possible price.Pul=
lman=E2=80=99s latest novel, La Belle Sauvage, is out today and is expected=
 to be one of the year=E2=80=99s biggest sellers. Fans have waited 17 years=
 for the book, a prequel to His Dark Materials.Branches of Waterstone=E2=80=
=99s opened at midnight for those too eager to wait until the morning. But =
Pullman said few writers today enjoy his level of success.=E2=80=9CThere ar=
e plenty of things to be concerned about, not least the falling incomes of =
people who depend on writing books for their living,=E2=80=9D said Pullman.=
ADVERTISINGinRead=C2=A0invented by TeadsLa Belle Sauvage is the first in a =
new trilogy, The Book of Dust=C2=A0CREDIT:=C2=A0DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP=E2=
=80=9CI=E2=80=99m extremely lucky in my writing career. I don=E2=80=99t dec=
ry that for a moment and I=E2=80=99m very grateful for it. But colleagues o=
f mine, friends of mine who 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, before the end of the=
 Net Book Agreement, would have been able to earn a living by writing books=
, and selling enough copies to libraries - they can=E2=80=99t do it any mor=
e.=E2=80=9CThe rise of big booksellers, internet booksellers and so on, has=
 been good for readers in some ways, but it hasn=E2=80=99t always been good=
 for writers.=E2=80=9DUntil the 1990s, the Net Book Agreement ensured that =
titles were sold at a fixed price. Its dissolution mean that online retaile=
rs, supermarkets and major chains could discount books. Authors=E2=80=99 ro=
yalties are a cut of the sale price, not the price printed on the back cove=
r.A report last year found that the average income for a writer in the UK i=
s =C2=A312,500, well below the minimum wage.Pullman was speaking at Oxford =
University=E2=80=99s Bodleian Library, where he launched his new novel.His =
Dark Materials - the trilogy of Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1=
997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000) - sold 18 million copies and have been t=
ranslated into 40 languages.La Belle Sauvage is the start of another trilog=
y, called The Book of Dust. It is set 10 years earlier and revisits the her=
oine, Lyra, as a baby. The second book will skip forward to Lyra as a 20-ye=
ar-old undergraduate.The new book is darker than the stories that came befo=
re, and the language more adult: there is swearing, including use of the f-=
word.=E2=80=9CHis Darker Materials, perhaps? I think that is true,=E2=80=9D=
 Pullman said. =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve got older too, perhaps more cynical an=
d closer to despair and all that sort of thing. Yes, it is a darker book, I=
 can=E2=80=99t deny that. But that=E2=80=99s the story that wanted to be to=
ld.=E2=80=9DPhilip Pullman at home in Oxford=C2=A0CREDIT:=C2=A0CLARA MOLDEN=
 FOR THE TELEGRAPHHe disclosed that the book was years in the writing becau=
se he had suffered from ill health. He did not go into details, although th=
e New York Times said that complications from prostate surgery had left him=
 wracked with pain and able to sleep only in 15-minute bursts. A further op=
eration earlier this year corrected the problem.Speaking at the launch, he =
explained: =E2=80=9CI have been ill for a number of years but I=E2=80=99m b=
etter now. It was a surgical operation that did the trick so: good for surg=
ery!=E2=80=9CThis is one of the reasons the book has taken a long time to a=
ppear, because it was quite hard to work with something like that. I have f=
elt confined and restricted, to some extent, by my health.=E2=80=9DIn addit=
ion to author pay, Pullman said his chief concern is schools. A former teac=
her, he laments the loss of school libraries (=E2=80=9Cevery school should =
have a decent library and a trained librarian on the staff=E2=80=9D) and of=
 teachers reading stories to their pupils.=E2=80=9CGreat stories have laste=
d for 3,000 years or more - I mean Greek myths, I mean fairytales, I mean f=
olk tales, ghost stories - all sorts of stories. That=E2=80=99s what I enjo=
yed most when I was a teacher and that=E2=80=99s what I enjoyed most when I=
 was a child at school.=E2=80=9CI don=E2=80=99t know if that=E2=80=99s even=
 allowed now. You=E2=80=99re telling a story and it=E2=80=99s: =E2=80=98Sto=
p! Ofsted=E2=80=99s coming! Put it away!=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D
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;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70216">M</span>ost authors can no =
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f;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70238">La Belle Sauvage is the fi=
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xt Roman&quot;, Georgia, Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15086065535=
43_70244">=E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99m extremely lucky in my writing career. I don=
=E2=80=99t decry that for a moment and I=E2=80=99m very grateful for it. Bu=
t colleagues of mine, friends of mine who 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, before =
the end of the Net Book Agreement, would have been able to earn a living by=
 writing books, and selling enough copies to libraries - they can=E2=80=99t=
 do it any more.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: =
16px; font-size: 1.7rem; line-height: 2.5rem; font-family: &quot;Austin New=
s Text Roman&quot;, Georgia, Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606=
553543_70245">=E2=80=9CThe rise of big booksellers, internet booksellers an=
d so on, has been good for readers in some ways, but it hasn=E2=80=99t alwa=
ys been good for writers.=E2=80=9D</div></div></div></div><div style=3D"box=
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06553543_70248"><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 82.3333p=
x; margin-right: 0px;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70249"><div st=
yle=3D"box-sizing: border-box;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70250=
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rem; line-height: 2.5rem; font-family: &quot;Austin News Text Roman&quot;, =
Georgia, Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70251"><span =
style=3D"box-sizing: border-box;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_702=
52">U</span>ntil the 1990s, the Net Book Agreement ensured that titles were=
 sold at a fixed price. Its dissolution mean that online retailers, superma=
rkets and major chains could discount books. Authors=E2=80=99 royalties are=
 a cut of the sale price, not the price printed on the back cover.</div><di=
v style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 1.7rem; =
line-height: 2.5rem; font-family: &quot;Austin News Text Roman&quot;, Georg=
ia, Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70253">A report la=
st year found that the average income for a writer in the UK is =C2=A312,50=
0, well below the minimum wage.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; =
margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 1.7rem; line-height: 2.5rem; font-family: &=
quot;Austin News Text Roman&quot;, Georgia, Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0=
_ym19_1_1508606553543_70254">Pullman was speaking at Oxford University=E2=
=80=99s Bodleian Library, where he launched his new novel.</div><div style=
=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 1.7rem; line-he=
ight: 2.5rem; font-family: &quot;Austin News Text Roman&quot;, Georgia, Tim=
es, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70255">His Dark Materials=
 - the trilogy of Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The A=
mber Spyglass (2000) - sold 18 million copies and have been translated into=
 40 languages.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16=
px; font-size: 1.7rem; line-height: 2.5rem; font-family: &quot;Austin News =
Text Roman&quot;, Georgia, Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_150860655=
3543_70256">La Belle Sauvage is the start of another trilogy, called The Bo=
ok of Dust. It is set 10 years earlier and revisits the heroine, Lyra, as a=
 baby. The second book will skip forward to Lyra as a 20-year-old undergrad=
uate.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; font-=
size: 1.7rem; line-height: 2.5rem; font-family: &quot;Austin News Text Roma=
n&quot;, Georgia, Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_7025=
7">The new book is darker than the stories that came before, and the langua=
ge more adult: there is swearing, including use of the f-word.</div><div st=
yle=3D"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 1.7rem; line=
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Times, serif;" id=3D"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1508606553543_70258">=E2=80=9CHis Da=
rker Materials, perhaps? I think that is true,=E2=80=9D Pullman said. =E2=
=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve got older too, perhaps more cynical and closer to despai=
r and all that sort of thing. Yes, it is a darker book, I can=E2=80=99t den=
y that. But that=E2=80=99s the story that wanted to be told.=E2=80=9D</div>=
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e launch, he explained: =E2=80=9CI have been ill for a number of years but =
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g time to appear, because it was quite hard to work with something like tha=
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>In addition to author pay, Pullman said his chief concern is schools. A fo=
rmer teacher, he laments the loss of school libraries (=E2=80=9Cevery schoo=
l should have a decent library and a trained librarian on the staff=E2=80=
=9D) and of teachers reading stories to their pupils.</div><div style=3D"bo=
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ave lasted for 3,000 years or more - I mean Greek myths, I mean fairytales,=
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st when I was a child at school.</div><div style=3D"box-sizing: border-box;=
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