Big Fiction - How Conglomeration Changed Publishing Industry American Literature

Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Mass Market (I): How Mass-Market Books Changed Publishing
2. Mass Market (II): How the Mass Market Won the World, Lost Its Soul-Then Lost the World
3. Trade (I): How Women Resisted Sexism and Reinvented the Novel
4. Trade (II): How Literary Writers Embraced Genre
5. Nonprofits: How Rebels Found Funding and Rejected New York
6. Independents: How W. W. Norton Stayed Free and Housed the Misfits
Conclusion
Glossary of Publishing Figures
Notes
Index

About the author

Dan Sinykin

Summary

Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Sinykin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231192958
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19295-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Literature Now
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Cultural Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Press & journalism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of specific companies / corporate history, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade