The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read

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2001
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Gone is the plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in their publishing decisions. Now 6 behemoths share 80% of the market and margin is all. Part-memoir, part-history, here is an account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing.

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Gone is the plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in their publishing decisions. Now 6 behemoths share 80% of the market and margin is all. Part-memoir, part-history, here is an account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing.

$27.68

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 13 Nov 2001
ISBN 10: 185984362X
ISBN 13: 9781859843628

Media Reviews

Andre Schiffrin is an old-fashioned New York publisher, the sort that loves and believes in books. Not just best-sellers, but little books with big ideas. --The Times [London]

Andr Schiffrin presents a somber portrait of American publishing where the pursuit of profit has strangled all creativity. --Nouvel Observateur

Newsworthy and important, eloquent, smart, thoughtful, and well-presented. --The Nation

An absorbing account of the revolution in publishing during the last decade. --Financial Times

Forceful evidence that corporate insistence on higher profits has been cultural and business folly. --Business Week

Author Bio

Andr Schiffrin was, for thirty years, the publisher of Pantheon Books. In 1990 Schiffrin left Pantheon to found The New Press. He is the author of The Business of Books, Words and Money, A Political Education, and Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's Leading Comic Artists. He divides his time between Paris and New York.