Recent books about publishing

摘要

Publishing overall, and print publishing especially, is in a state of great flux. Large commercial publishers such as Random House and Penguin have merged, reducing the conglomerates once known as the Big Six to five. Wild-West, get-rich-type stories by novelists such as Amanda Hocking - who proved herself through digital self-publishing to land a contract with St Martin's Press, complete with a US$2.1 million advance - abound.