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What Is the Business of Literature?

By Richard Nash

Courtesy of John Ritter.

As technology disrupts the business model of traditional publishers, the industry must imagine new ways of capturing the value of a book.

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Issue: Spring 2013 / Volume 89/2

Published: March 6, 2013

Richard Nash

Richard Nash (@r_nash) is an independent publishing entrepreneur—VP of Community and Content of Small Demons, founder of Cursor, and Publisher of Red Lemonade. For most of the past decade, he ran the iconic indie Soft Skull Press for which work he was awarded the Association of American...

What Is the Business of Literature?

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