With Borders’ recent bankruptcy filing there’s has been a lot of renewed interest in how they–and we–got to where we are today. Which is pretty much what John Thompson chronicles in his recently-released book MERCHANTS OF CULTURE: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. The new issue of Poets & Writers has a thorough and interesting interview with Thompson by Gabriel Cohen. The good news is that “This field, which looks to the outsider like a chaotic mess, actually has a structure and a dynamic to it.” Despite all the complaining, Thompson sees book publishing as an optimistic culture by […]
