Is it easy to be a publisher?

Andre Schiffrin is the American Publisher, the Kavaler of the Order of the Honorary Legion (France), the laureate of one of the most prestigious Literary Prizes of Italy (Il Premio Cavour, 2002) Forwards, he was awarded not only for his publishing, but also for this book, representing something among the professional memorars and pamphlet. Since 1961, Schiffrin worked at Pantheon - a division of the publishing giant "Rand Hauz", which specialized in intellectual literature. In 1990, when new owners" Rand House Hawa "began to withdraw from plans, all that did not meet their opinion about the tastes of the mass consumer, the whole structure of the Pantheon" editors filed a dismissal statements. Schiffrin founded the independent publishing house "New Press", which puts quality in chapter, and not the profitability of books. Talking in detail about the flourishing and death of Pantheon, the author sheds the light on the backstage life of large commercial publishers, and also shows the mechanisms used by concerns in the fight for the market. But even in such conditions, as Schiffrin proves, sharing the experience of "New Press", an independent intellectual publishing house is capable of surviving.
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