Book Publishing/Selling

Steven Maas (CUTR) maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Mon Aug 18 12:50:41 CDT 1997


Well I guess the show I was listening to was a rerun--it turns out this
was the March 17 issue.  It's really quite interesting.  Sorry for any
wild-goose chases.

Henry Holt is part of Holtzbrinck, one of the eight corporations that own
most of the major publishers.  Holtzbrinck is characterized in the
magazine as the only one of the big eight where "...management seem[s] to
care (for now) what people read."

	Steve Maas

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, I wrote:
> As I type I'm listening to a radio show ("Radio Nation") which is
> interviewing the author of an article in the current _The Nation_ weekly
> about the current state of book publishing and selling.
[snip]





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