The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read

Andre Schiffrin was the head of Pantheon Books and founder (in 1992) of The New Press, which should have positioned him to write a better analysis of the book industry than The Business of Books. Instead, it is a simplistic and polemical screed; and Schiffrin comes across as a grumpy old man unhappy with change of any kind.