bernardine evaristo says this.blishing industry, which is central to this whole debate, is still run by predominantly white, middle class demographics, same as years ago, with the perceived target reader being a middle aged, middle class and often white woman who apparently does not have the imagination oftentimes to want to engage with writings by people of colour, she says. this is the assumption made, but she says "it's plainly not true". so you're very confident that that assumption within publishing no longer? no, i'm not remotely confident that that doesn't dominate within publishing. i don't run a publishing business that is investing in romance, fiction and the like. but there's a great deal because you're rather important to them. well, we're important in quite an elevated niche within publishing. there is books are sold through supermarkets, they're sold through many other channels. amazon obviously hugely and through ebooks, kindle, which is obviously by far and away the most popular of them, where you d