Despite Smallness Double Bestsellers

Readers have been quick to applaud the inclusion on the Booker longlist of titles from numerous small publishers. As a Bookseller opinion notes, Small here means very small: Arcadia, Tindal Street and Flambard are each run by two people. But those same publishers are finding it increasingly hard to have their books well represented in the country's major chain stores, and this column says they face the same problem in getting reviewers' attention. The biggest new titles get blanket coverage, as editors scramble to sign up big name reviewers; swathes of less visible titles are lost. So when the same newspapers came to report the longlist, a lack of archive information on the small press books meant they merited barely a mention.
· Look at the top five especially. Go Dragons! [PalmDigital ]