UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA
FACOLTÀ DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA,
SCIENZE POLITICHE, GIURISPRUDENZA, INGEGNERIA, ECONOMIA
CORSO DI LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN
EDITORIA E COMUNICAZIONE MULTIMEDIALE
EDITOR.
DYNAMICS, HISTORY, PERSPECTIVES
OF A CULTURAL OCCUPATION
Relatore:
Chiar. mo Prof. Marco Dotti
Tesi di laurea di:
Marta Perduca
The italian context
The 6 protagonists:
Mondadori
Feltrinelli
RCS
GEMS
Giunti
De Agostini
Publishing house’s structure
Publisher
Managing
Director
Editing
Director
Editorial
Office
Editor
Division
Graphics
Editorial
Secretariat
Technical
Office
Commercial
Management
Press
Agency
Marketing
In Italy we have many kinds of publishing houses
but everywhere
EDITOR
plays a very important role
Some words for a little history…
Maxwell Perkins
Erich Linder
Italo Calvino
EDITOR
An elaborated figure.
Editor’s assignments:
• the review of a text with the aim to better it
• the responsability of a series ok books
• the control over scouts’ work
• the opinion on a new, unpublished work
but editor could also write
To get more informations about this occupation,
I realized some interviews.
The interviewees answered to some questions:
• who’s the editor?
• can we think about a future for this occupation?
• looking to the activities of the editors of the past, can we
find some models for the moderns editors?
• is it possible to find some examples of bad editing’s
work?
discretion
unsaid
delicacy
Question n° 1:
who’s the editor?
“we can say that editor is a trainer,
with the football language”
• feelings
• perspective of the books market
Question n° 2:
can we think about a future for
this occupation?
“recent occupation with a great future”
“everyone has something to say but not all
are able to do it”
Question n° 3:
looking to the activities of the editors of
the past, can we find some models for
the moderns editors?
not the biggest one as Italo Calvino or Cesare Pavese but
MODERN EDITORS
with their daily works
Question n° 4:
is it possible to find some examples of
bad editing’s work?
someone gives directly examples but others are
strictly linked to their professional confidentiality
Gomorra is a case of both good and bad editing
One of the interviews, the one to Francesco Forlani,
now is on the internet, in Nazione Indiana website.
Nazione Indiana
Conclusions
book is a
COLLECTIVE PRODUCT
as films
Thanks for your attention!