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Posted 15 Oct 2000 - The Business of Books
This book is not by a woman or from a feminist press, but it is right on target
for the issues affecting all small publishers.
Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took
Over Publishing and Changed the Way we Read by Andre Schiffrin ($19.90 Verso
Publications ISBN 1859847633).
To quote a reviewer: "Schiffrin has been the gadfly of American publishing
ever since he quit his post as head of Random House's Pantheon imprint in a
blaze of publicity 19 years ago, complaining that the publisher's new management
wanted to trim his list severely removing from it many of the socially conscious
titles he was proud to publish. He went on to found and run the New Press, which
with strong foundation support has continued to do many of the kinds of books
that Schiffrin insists should be published but which he claims have increasingly
been abandoned by big commercial houses . . . Schiffrin forcefully argues that
publishing only for immediate commercial return is not only economically
shortsighted but culturally disastrous" (Library Journal , August
2000).
Order it from your local independent bookseller, or online from a feminist bookseller!