the Harper Studio blog asks former publisher/now agent Larry Kirshbaum what one thing he would change about the publishing business: “I’d like to see less titles published by the large publishers. The smaller publishers have financial and capacity restraints which tend to keep their lists within the realm of what they can successfully market. The larger publishers, having greater resources (and also larger infrastructures) seem to believe that the larger their lists, the more chances they’ll have for scoring big successes. “Unfortunately, even when you have multiple imprints, size no longer works in their favor. (Large publishers tend to have […]
