Interesting article on the republishing of children's classics

[vesela]

An article by Amanda Craig on the phenomenon of republishing children's classics - why and how it's happening, and the issues involved.

This is interesting (from a children's editor at Faber):
"The down-side is that children's buyers in book-shops tend to be the most junior people there, they don't remember the classics that people in their 30s and 40s do. So Sales didn't believe me until they got out and sold."

Excellent article, many thanks for linking to it. I think the internet is such a great resource as well, it feels like you can get pretty much (though not quite!) all the old classics from Abebooks or Amazon marketplace for pennies, rather than having to wait for them to show up in a 2nd hand shop.