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

Author:   André Schiffrin
Publisher:   Verso Books
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781859843628


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   17 November 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   André Schiffrin
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   0.276kg
ISBN:  

9781859843628


ISBN 10:   185984362
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   17 November 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Forceful evidence that corporate insistence on higher profits has been culturaland business folly.


Forceful evidence that corporate insistence on higher profits has been cultural and business folly.


Andre Schiffrin is an old-fashioned New York publisher, the sort that loves and believes in books. Not just best-sellers, but little books with big ideas. -- The Times [London] Andre Schiffrin presents a somber portrait of American publishing where the pursuit of profit has strangled all creativity. -- Nouvel Observateur Newsworthy and important, eloquent, smart, thoughtful, and well-presented. -- The Nation An absorbing account of the revolution in publishing during the last decade. -- Financial Times Forceful evidence that corporate insistence on higher profits has been cultural and business folly. -- Business Week


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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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