He goes on to mention the austerity measures that have been forced upon several countries in the name of structural adjustments in the recent past that have weakened public health funding. This was also been pointed out by Lourie Garrett in her The Coming Plague: Newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance.
But then freedom of speech is more espoused in nations where it is futile, where protesters are allowed to have their say because that is the safest way to drain their energy. One aspect missing from the books [L2] published so far is a comparison of the approaches to combat Covid adopted in different countries. A discussion on the Cuban strategy [L3] —unrelenting monitoring of every family in the country for signs of the illness — is a glaring omission, although it could be instructive.
A detailed and unbiased account of the controversies surrounding the various medicines or treatments that are being tried out would be helpful too — though developments might quickly overtake what has been written. And not only scientists. This might be a point of no return for our civilization, and we need to think more, read more, argue more, and publish more in-depth books, so that our discussions remain informed and do not get hijacked by hot button outbursts in social media.
BimanNath is an astrophysicist, science writer and a novelist. He works at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. This series of articles on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on publishing is curated by Kanishka Gupta.
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After the Christmas period, sales did begin to falter, but Ms White says a knight in shining armour arrived - a website called Bookshop. An online retailer of new books that first started in the US in January , it shares its profits with independent physical bookstores.
Customers order from Bookshop. Independent shops registered with Bookshop. In addition, independent stores get all the profits from the sale of books on Bookshop. While Covid lockdowns are now, fingers crossed, coming to an end, Ms Vanderbilt says sales of physical books are continuing to rise. New Economy is a new series exploring how businesses, trade, economies and working life are changing fast. He has just published his latest book, The Importance Of Being Interested, and is now on a tour of more than such UK bookshops to publicise the non-fiction title.
He says that while many of the shops thought Covid would be the nail in their coffins, the pandemic has instead allowed them to show their true worth.
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