Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature Sinykin Dan
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature Sinykin Dan In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat…
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature Sinykin Dan
In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other large corporations purchased other formerly independent publishers. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements.
Giving an inside look at the industry's daily routines, personal dramas, and institutional crises, he reveals how conglomeration has shaped what kinds of books and writers are published. As multinational conglomerates consolidated the industry, the business of literature--and literature itself--transformed.Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author. Sinykin examines four different sectors of the publishing industry: mass-market books by