Spolupráce, koexistence, konkurence. Českoslovenští vydavatelé po srpnu 1968 na Západě mezi svobodou vyjadřování, tlakem konkurence a limity exilových možností
Cooperation, Coexistence, Competition. Czechoslovak Publishers in the West after August 1968 among the Freedom of Speech, the Pressure of Competition and Limits of Exile Possibilities

Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on several specific determinants of publisher´s activities of Czechoslovak exilesThe paper is focused on several specific determinants of publisher’s activities of Czechoslovak exiles who left their homeland for the West after August 1968. The aim of the attention is especially how those activities were developed in a twenty-year period after August under conditions of a western market and in connection with the revival of exile movement coming with a massive wave of emigrants. Besides publisher’s problems, especially a poor personal, financial and technical background, publishers-amateurs had to withstand another uneasy challenges. With a growing number of new companies, principles of a western market economy began to influence those activities more and more intensively. Although terms such as a market and a competition may appeared to be inappropriate in connection with exile publishing, they became its part and parcel. On one hand, the exile market was specific with its limits, diffusiveness and non-cohesiveness and many exiles refused to look at their modest publishing activities in terms of rules of supply and demand. On the other side, just those ones played a significant role. A division of a market was running almost permanently – the economically weakest publishers went bankrupt, they were replaced by similarly inappropriately disposed new ones who sooner or later had to solve same difficulties. Attempts for mergers of exile publishing houses fell on deaf ears.

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