Edit news, nothing but news: the bet seemed crazy on a Belgian French -speaking market where publishing houses make the soul, reduce the wing or are forced to fusion. In this part of the kingdom where it is estimated that a novel is a success if it crosses the bar of 350 copies, it took the audacity of a group of friends to launch, in 2005, in such an uncertain adventure.
Twenty years later, in Louvain-la-Neuve, in the Walloon Brabant, Quadrature keeps the course. In March, at the Brussels Book Fair, Patrick Dupuis, managing director of the company and himself writer, cut a big cake to celebrate the birthday of a small business which attracts more and more authors from Overseas from which: almost half of the collections published by the Belgian house are now signed by French people.
“They do not arrive here after having toured all the Parisian” good houses “who would have refused their manuscript, but because they appreciate our way of doingsaid Patrick Dupuis with a smile. Some are also sent to us by French publishers who do not publish news but recommend us to them. »»
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Source: Lemonde