Editoras e livros artesanais: notas e reflexões sobre processos de criação e produção

Abstract

This research has the purpose to analyze brazilian craft publishers, who showed up in the publishing field as an alternative to large companies in the sector, both for artistic reasons, as the market, striving for a different work, loaded with aesthetic rigor. Craft publishers appear as sources publishing beginners authors, or those looking to conceive the creation process and the product to be posted on a different production methods in serial mode. To prepare this work, was held a theoretical and exploratory research, consisting of interviews and literature research, in order to investigate the operation and production process within the publishers Arte e Letra (PR), Mínimas (SP), Coisa Edições (RS) e Sol Negro (RN). To promote it, we seek to understand the role of past and present editor, the craftsman, the book market and where these publishers are in the production chain. From the contributions of respondents, was perceived that these craft publishers have not, at first, intentions of financial growth, but the circulation of texts and authors, publishers that turn their purposes for cultural investments.