Monopoly of Words: Big Media and the Publishing Industry
The costs of consolidation
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Several years ago when I began teaching a publishing industry course for one of the MFA programs I work for, I started subscribing to the Publisher’s Lunch and Publisher’s Marketplace newsletters. Their weekday emails include a summary of recent book deals, a list of open jobs in the industry, book buzz links, and other publishing-related news of note.