Schiffrin Andre
Schiffrin Andre - The Business Of Books How The International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing And Changed The Way We Read - Paperback
Schiffrin Andre - The Business Of Books How The International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing And Changed The Way We Read - Paperback
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Description: Post - war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andr Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in their publishing decisions sometimes even deliberately. Now six behemoths share 80% of the market and profit margin is all. Andr Schiffrin can write about these changes with authority because he witnessed them from inside a conglomerate as head of Pantheon co - founded by his father bought (and sold) by Random House. And he can write about them with candor because he is no longer on the inside having quit corporate publishing in disgust to set up a flourishing independent house The New Press. Schiffrin's evident affection for his authors sparkles throughout a story woven around publishing the work of those such as Studs Terkel Noam Chomsky Gunnar Myrdal George Kennan Juliet Mitchell R. D. Laing Eric Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson. Part - memoir part - history here is an account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing that is irascible acute and passionate. An engaging counterpoint to recent celebratory memoirs of the industry written by those with more stock options and fewer scruples than Schiffrin The Business of Books warns of the danger to adventurous intelligent publishing in the bullring of today's marketplace.
Title: The Business Of Books How The International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing And Changed The Way We Read
Author(s): Schiffrin Andre
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781859843628
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2001
Category: Publishing Industry & Book Trade
Description: Post - war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andr Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in their publishing decisions sometimes even deliberately. Now six behemoths share 80% of the market and profit margin is all. Andr Schiffrin can write about these changes with authority because he witnessed them from inside a conglomerate as head of Pantheon co - founded by his father bought (and sold) by Random House. And he can write about them with candor because he is no longer on the inside having quit corporate publishing in disgust to set up a flourishing independent house The New Press. Schiffrin's evident affection for his authors sparkles throughout a story woven around publishing the work of those such as Studs Terkel Noam Chomsky Gunnar Myrdal George Kennan Juliet Mitchell R. D. Laing Eric Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson. Part - memoir part - history here is an account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing that is irascible acute and passionate. An engaging counterpoint to recent celebratory memoirs of the industry written by those with more stock options and fewer scruples than Schiffrin The Business of Books warns of the danger to adventurous intelligent publishing in the bullring of today's marketplace.
Title: The Business Of Books How The International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing And Changed The Way We Read
Author(s): Schiffrin Andre
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781859843628
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 11/17/2001
Category: Publishing Industry & Book Trade
