Twelve - Betting On A Dozen Books Each Year
Posted at 7:40AM Tuesday 05 Feb 2008
Publishers in the U.S. released more than 291,000 separate titles in 2006. But one imprint that got its start just last year has already had a string of hits with a philosophy of "less is more.""Nobody has any idea what's going to hit. I think that publishing is basically a corporate form of legalized gambling," says Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor in chief of Twelve, which only releases one book a month — 12 each year.
Feature on Jonathan Karp, the publisher and editor and chief of Twelve in npr.org
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