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August 1-15, 2005 Edition
How a Small
Publisher Became
Stuff of Legend
LONDON/07/18/05It has been 19 years since Nigel Newton and three co-founders met secretly in an office above a Chinese restaurant in southwest London, putting together an audacious plan to quit their respective publishing houses and start their own one from scratch.
The idea was to form a high-quality publisher with a more hands-on approach and an appetite for risk at a time when other imprints were being subsumed into larger houses owned by media conglomerates. Read the full story on www.latimes.com.
