Editing culture in nigerias'publishing industry

The shortage of editors in the country made authors especially literary authors tolook abroad for such services.the edito can be described as someone who challenges the writer to bring out the best in him.
for jude dibia, the author of 'unbriddled ' and 'walking in the shadow',a lot of people who parade themselves as literary editors were at best grammar teachers 0r at least copy editors.He believes there are only a few proffessional editors in nigeria.
writer odia ofeimu explains that an editors' bussiness is to scale up the ambition of work tothe level of what obtains in a discipl or in the market by encouraging re- writing where necessary
finetuning the merely passable to make it better.once the decision to publish awork has been taken,it ideally should be forwarded to a hierachy of editors who in turn have to add there own individual tou ches to it.
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educational books or belle lettres a commercial choice

publishers have to decide betwween publishing purely educational books and books intended for pleasure reading.This is obviously for profit motive .
biographies and autobiographies of public figures are fast gaining wider acceptance with publishers.These often garner handsome revenues at formal launches.Budding authorsoften have to search high and low for publishersand sometimes they are asked to financethere own publuishing.fot example,anew writre may be asked to fund aboue ten thou sand copies.Of course,bestsellers have guaranteed potential for for revision and re-issuance.
literary books are however indispesable to the preservation and transmisson of culture .For self development too.
The first stage inthe publishing process is the assessment of the submitted manuscript.If it is
deemed worthy,its submitted for further consideration
With the many problems besieging the publishing industry in nigeria,some stages are not observed .This leads to low quality of production in certai cases.
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self publishing versus corporate publishing

faced with increasing turning down by corporate publishers; Budding authors are designing new avenues for expressing their talent.
some writers withpassion now organise themselves into artistes societies in other to create a p[latform for artistic expression.
In an effort to fight the menqace of piracy , the nigerian government establish the national copyright commission .this is to ensure that authors ,to alot of extent reap the fruit of their labour.
it hs been arguid that self publishing has given rise to the problem of poor quality of production.however, self -publshing has provided a significant outlet especially ar
tistic expression corporate publishing ,on the other hand has engendered a wide spectrum ofproductionsand higher quality works.
Whether its self publishing orcorporate publishing,it is clear there amarket for the industry waiting to be satisfied.
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overview

Book publishing describes the whole process of preparing a book for publi consumption.
nigeria boasts a large number of creative writers whose talent flow cannot be satsfactorily tapp[ed by an industry bogged down by economic challenges

however,nigeria stiil offers profit potential for invstors wishing to enter the industry.
some pulishing companies many of which are concentrated in ibadan have shown outstanding resilience
Universitypress.plc which began as a branch of british university press recent ly celebrated its sixty years or existence .
With a re-enforced publishing industry ,there are many more soyinkas achebes emechetas to mention a few waiting to be discovered
Widely varied experiences in nigeria and accross africa will continue to inspire new bestsellers
Despite economic challenges in nigeria many publishing companies have survived till date.
These include Evans brothers publishers' longman publishers,rasmed etc.With university press
winning theWorld bank best overall for 2006;2007 ;2008.
It also won the peari awards.
the prospects of literary pursuit,like a healthy shoot is stubbornly finding its way around rocks and obstacles.The flow spiliing into the internatoional arena.