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Two more Len Shatzkin anecdotes on publishing practice

May 25, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 2 Comments

Elisabeth Sifton has a long and thoughtful piece in the current issue of The Nation. I disagree with the fundamental premise — that the woes of the book business are primarily due to bad decisions or judgments by the leaders of the business rather than large forces that are changing the ground on which the […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Elisabeth Sifton, Eudora Welty, Leonard Shatzkin, Lincoln Boehm, Sterling Publishing

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