Notes from Mosier-'What Goes Around,Comes Around-Pricing Models for Print Books'

摘要

Like many readers of Against the Grain, I have been reading Richard Abel's serialized history of the Richard Abel Company with much interest.(Papa Abel Remembers: A Tale of a Band of Booksellers.)My own curiosity is fueled in no small part by the fact that I worked for nearly thirty years for Blackwell's, and, when I joined the firm in the late 1970s, many of the staff were Abel veterans. Blackwell North America was established on January 1, 1975 as a result of the acquisition of selected assets of Richard Abel & Company by Blackwell's of Oxford. The culture of Blackwell North America(or B/NA-the Bureau of National Affairs has right of prior claim to the acronym BNA)throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s was still largely informed by the Abel Company and its former employees.