Sunday, June 08, 2008

No To Age Banding

From No To Age Banding:

"We are writers, illustrators, librarians, teachers, publishers and booksellers. Some of us have a measure of control over what appears on the covers of their books; others have less.

But we are all agreed that the proposal to put an age-guidance figure on books for children is ill-conceived, damaging to the interests of young readers, and highly unlikely, despite the claims made by those publishers promoting the scheme, to make the slightest difference to sales.

We take this step to disavow publicly any connection with such age-guidance figures, and to state our passionately-held conviction that everything about a book should seek to welcome readers in and not keep them out."

Via Zen In Darkness.

2 Comments:

Blogger Sean said...

*Sigh* I can't help but realize that the argument would hold a lot more relevance in a Philippine context if we only had more libraries over here.

2:26 AM  
Blogger pgenrestories said...

@Sean: Maybe given time, we will have more libraries. :)

10:02 AM  

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