Abstract
Everyone Loves the Underdog – Corporate Storytelling in the Business of Books
 This article discusses the book business’ tradition of anecdotes and tale-telling in relation to a newer trend of corporate storytelling. Taking the example of Scots publishing house Canongate Books and its figurehead, star publisher Jamie Byng, as a starting point for discussion, I show how publishing houses can build publishing profiles/brand themselves with storytelling, and how, in this process, recurring narrative tropes and clichés are consciously linked to cultural values. This practise – comparable to the marketing strategies used by companies such as Swedish hamburger franchise MAX – is then used, I argue, by independent publishers to position themselves in a literary field characterised by increased polarisation.
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