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Merchants of Culture: The Book Publishing Business in the 21st Century

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The book publishing industry, which has existed for five centuries, is facing the biggest economic and technological challenges in its history in the twenty-first century. With the advent of the digital age, it is invariably predicted to die a quick death. But how true are these predictions and how is the book business today? John Thompson's book tells us what changes the publishing industry has undergone over the past 40-50 years and how the roles of the main actors - publishers, agents and sellers - have been redefined. For answers, Thompson draws on a large corpus of interviews with a variety of publishing house staff, headhunters, authors, and booksellers, including key buyers from major retailers. Exploring the inner workings of the publishing world from an anthropologist's perspective, the author seeks to understand: why and how, despite the global transformation of the media field, does traditional book publishing manage to remain a central sphere of human culture? John B. Thompson is a British sociologist, Professor at the University of Cambridge and Professor Emeritus at Jesus College.
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