This month we’re talking with Léonicka Valcius about how to interrogate and rethink in-house processes and assumptions when publishing diverse books, including acquisitions, audience identification, setting priorities, and building in-house excitement.
In this panel from Tech Forum 2017, panelists Léonicka Valcius, John Toews, and Tan light discuss how to effectively market and sell diverse book lists.
Relying solely on white customers is detrimental to the growth of the industry. Expanding and diversifying the target audience right at the beginning of the sales funnel can help you get more sales.
Kaya Thomas, creator of the app We Read Too, a book resource that helps readers find books by and about people of colour, joins us on the podcast to talk her favourite books, breaking into coding, and diversifying the publishing industry.