Dying public?

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Richard Romeo wrote:

> Oh, this is hogwash (no offense O' Chine)--the number of great books I want 
> to read is endless--in fact, it depresses me that I need to winnow out the 
> non-essentials, so to speak.  There is greatness out there--you just have to 
> dig deeper than the local Barnes and Noble.
> 
> P.S.  A bunch of p-listers went to hear George Saunders read early this 
> week--a packed hot crowd--he read Sea Oak, a very funny and disturbing story

On this subject I heard a Terry Gross interview with three prominent chief
editors at big conglomerate-based publishing houses in which the point
was made that current technology now allows small runs of books with
only specialized appeal, a thing that formerly would have been
economially unfeasible.

			P.