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Founded in 2002, a division of 21st Century View
Limited, Burn-a-Book publishing UK is a relative newcomer to the publishing sector. We started the business primarily to help undiscovered authors of merit publish their work without going through a vanity publisher or following the self-published route. Happily, established authors are also
preferring to work with us because of our hard-won reputation for dealing "fair and square" and paying better than industry average royalty percentages.
Success has followed hard work, many new authors contact us, from all
over the world, and interest in UK publishing has never been stronger. Not surprising, because in purely economic terms, publishing (books, journals, magazines, newspapers and “online”) is the country's biggest media industry, adding more to the UK's bottom line and employing more people than any other media sector. UK publishing exports lead the world (and did even before Harry Potter was created); we are proud to be a small part of this success.
We love what we do, and we do it well – this is a good recipe for a successful business! Literature in all its forms plays a central role in the cultural, educational and social inheritance and future of a nation. A book can change a life, be an agent of social change, inspire a young mind to do great things with his or her life.
A good fiction book can stimulate the creative part of the brain in a way film
or TV could never do because a good story fires one's imagination. These are just a few reasons why we love the
publishing business.
We add value – from the selection and editing of content, through the production and distribution process and marketing of our books to ever more discerning readers. Publishing is an industry at the nerve
centre of what technology can offer. As more sophisticated ways of getting content to readers emerge,
our aim is be at the leading edge of these developments, and our future focus is to remain leading-edge. Although there is still a huge focus on the physical book,
publishing is now a truly multi-media, multi-format business, and this is the direction we are committed to take.
A global business in the true sense of the word, we work with
talented, creative people from all over the world. This is the gist that keeps
our team vibrant, stimulated and focussed on moving Burn-a-Book publishing UK
from strength to strength.
