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

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

Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andr Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is...
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The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read by Schiffrin, Andre

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

$42.95
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read by Schiffrin, Andre

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

$42.95
Author: Andre Schiffrin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Andre Schiffrin
Publisher: Verso
Published: 11/17/2001
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.68h x 6.20w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781859843628

About the Author
André 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.
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