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The publishing business as we have known it is not going away anytime soon

June 11, 2015 by Mike Shatzkin 38 Comments

Regular readers, please pardon me for the unusual length of this post, but it covers a lot of ground that I think is necessary to make the point. A friend who has actually been working fulltime in the book business since I was still in college and who remains active was speculating at BEA about […]

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