The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read
- ISBN-10
- 185984362X
- ISBN-13
- 9781859843628
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-11-17
- Publisher
- Verso
- Author
- André Schiffrin
Description
Part-memoir, part-history, The Business of Books is an irascible, acute and often passionate account of the collapsing standards of contemporary book publishing. It has appeared throughout the world in seventeen different editions. Book jacket.
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Other editions
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- 2000
- 204 pages
- Paperback
- Verso
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- 2007-08-22
- 493 pages
- Paperback
- Yale University Press
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