Samantha Ettus has an hour-long video with Jane Friedman and Larry Kirshbaum posted on her internet interview site Obsessed. Friedman remains optimistic about book publishing in general, but is bearish on the prospects for the biggest trade publishers (“the large publishers, which we’re now calling ‘legacy publishers'”) with their oversized cost structure: “The question is what will happen to the giant companies that are hurting very, very badly now. Can they come back? Can they reinvent themselves? In my opinion that would be very difficult, because there’s too much history and there’s too much overhead.” She also notes, “You’ve got […]
