Ten years after the publication of The Business of Books, his groundbreaking critique of conglomeration in the book industry, Andre Schiffrin turns his attention to the broader crisis in the media. Just as corporatization and the lowest-common-denominator pursuit of the bottom line have had a parlou[...]
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.[...]