Today I went with my wife to Abacus's take a look and come across with the presentation of the Catalan version of a story, " Cinderella did not want to eat partridge " (in Catalan " Clic on creu ja no blaus princeps," "The Cenienta no longer believe in Prince Charming").
(click on image to enlarge) is not a story for children, is a reinterpretation of the classic on which represent real women, who do not eat partridge, you do not want to eat partridges at the end of the story, a story in which the protagonists did not agree with the role of being saved, are women who are saving themselves and do not believe in stereotypes or outdated models. As my wife, Lola, would like to know that it was Cinderella and the Prince 10 years later, and is convinced that the evil queen in Snow White was going by the crisis of 40.
(click image to enlarge) The authors, Nunila writer and illustrator Salamero López Myriam Sierra Cameros, explained how they got the idea for the book, from chatting with a group of battered women, how they got together, thanks to friends and the internet, enough money even more, to make its first desktop publishing, or how they came to present now the Catalan version of a book, prefaced by the journalist Maruja Torres, now in its third edition .
(click image to enlarge) But best of all, the story has been available for free on Internet from the beginning, in PDF and licensed Creative Commons . And it has been a success, a phenomenon on the Internet before being published . Despite this, or because of it, have sold 30,000 copies of the book , including those published under the Editorial Planeta, who approached them in 2009, thanks to the impact on the Internet, intended to take over paper edition.
said Mary, illustrator, that television gives a false sense of choice for many channels you have, you end up being all the same, and I commented, as we signed a copy, that the real choice is da internet, in which a good product is backed by its users, they are the ones who choose what they want, and companies should be prepared to give them that they claim A CRY , ready to make a good cultural products a profitable product commercial, and not vice versa, as is being done now that products are manufactured "cultural" are actually commercial products from scratch, are designed not with the intention of contributing to the cultural enrichment of society, but with the intention to sell. As I commented to Myriam, acquaintances CDs with 12 songs worth only one of them ...
(click the image to enlarge) Thanks to them for discovering this gem, which I bought a copy, signed, drawn and spent, despite being available online for free (I say Sin speinarme ;-) ) and congratulations for having come to where they are, and stay that way.
