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'Changing society for the better’
30.04.08 Jenna Harris
Society Today magazine—“Britain’s first magazine for humanity”—is launching publishing imprint Society Books, which will focus on titles about social issues such as binge drinking and terrorism.
Society Books will publish a mix of fiction and non-fiction. It aims to release six books in total in 2008, with 16 planned for 2009. Founder and editor Hom Paribag said: “Society Today became extremely popular, and we came across lots of new and established writers, so decided to give them a platform through book publishing instead of reproducing a selection of articles.”
Paribag added that the success of the magazine showed there was a market for social publishing. The imprint’s first title will be biographical memoir A Regal Romance and Other Memories by Kenya-born multi–millionaire Ameer Janmohamed (June, h/b, £18), who fled Africa during the 1970s. Its next release will be photographic coffee table book Rock Bottom, about London’s homeless, which will be released to target the Christmas market.
Society Books is distributed by Gardners, and will also sell its titles from a soon-to-be-launched website.
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