André Schiffrin The business of books
how international conglomerates took over publishing and changed the way we read
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The author, managing director at Pantheon for thirty years and director of the New press, describes the changes that took place in post-war American publishing. From a plethora of small but presigious houses it has changed to a situation in which 80 percent of the market and profit margin is shared by 5 behemoths.