A five-part look at New Zealand publishing with Gordon McLauchlan screened as part of Kaleidoscope
Producer JILLIAN EWART
Reporter KATHERINE FINDLAY
Director KERRY FOWLER
1) How to become a published author.
2) Gordon McLauchlan talks to publishers about the decisions they make and the risks involved in each decision.
3) Gordon McLauchlan talks to Maurice Shadbolt and Margaret Sutherland about surviving by fiction alone; and to Yvonne Kalman, a local novelist who has struck it rich in America. Local publishers add their views.
4) Must we be a nation of low-brows? With soaring British prices booksellers are having to stock books of general interest and certain popularity.
5) "Coffee table" books are glossy, costly and elegant but what is their true worth? Gordon McLauchlan examines the phenomenon of limited-edition publishing in New Zealand.
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