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Calder in talks with five buyers

21.03.07

The Independent reports that John Calder is in talks with five potential new owners to take over his publishing imprint and accompanying eponymous bookshop in London. He insists he will take nothing from the deal so long as it secures the future of the esoteric range of literature that he has long championed.

"I'm trying to find a successor to take over and carry it on. I'm trying to decide who's the most credible. But I'm not going to take a penny. I won't retire rich," he tells the newspaper from the bookshop in The Cut by Waterloo. It has been reported that he is in talks to sell the rights to the work of his most valuable author, Samuel Beckett, to Faber, which already owns some of the plays, amid some alleged concern from the Beckett estate about how the works have been handled. But he refuses to discuss any single author on his list.

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