Excluding a couple of months of 2021, 2023 was Dar Camilleri’s second year and it was a beautiful year for us despite being grueling and with many challenges. It was the year we established ourselves as a publishing imprint in Malta with at least two best-selling publications under our name.
In 2023 we executed two major book projects, established this website as an important go-to place for news and investigations for the Maltese audience, hired our first employee, established an ongoing online bookshop, and debuted a pilot documentary. One of our book projects was the acquisition of Walid Nabhan’s rights from his UK publisher and his promotion of his book “Exodus of the Storks”. We have promoted this book with an online marketing campaign and an event in London that coincided with the London Book Fair. The other major book project was the launch and publication of the biography of Juan Bautista Azopardo. Both of these projects have been so far unprofitable, but we value them for their cultural and intellectual importance.
Looking forward to 2024, we are working on the English translation of L-Antolo?ija tal-Letteratura Mqarba into English as translated by Professor Clare Vassallo. We intend to publish and promote this book in the UK. We also intend to increase our online sales and our online marketing. We’re also exploring new book projects that are more profitable than the ones we did already. We will also keep our work in trying to commercialise our website whilst conserving our independence. We are expanding our reach to international audiences.
We’re working to finance further growth through credit since we have no debt and we intend to hire more people to produce more online content. We are relentless in our pursuit of growth. We also intend to formalise our operations in a registered company in Malta.
We are currently battling a constitutional case against the National Book Council for its uncompetitive behaviour by subsidising our competitors to our detriment, while we are negating the equivalent type of support. We will continue with this legal strategy and intend to open more legal cases in the future in relation to the government’s discriminatory practices.
Our mission is to build an independent publishing house that acts as a positive cultural and intellectual agent to society. Our focus is investigative journalism and books about history, politics, and literature. We intend to do more of the same and expand our product selection and themes.
We would like to thank all our supporters and clients on whom we depend for our existence, and we thank them for staying. Please be patient with us. We are building.
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Historian and Publisher
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