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André Schiffrin
is former director of publishing at Pantheon Books and currently director of the not-for-profit publishers The New Press, New York.
His publications in French include: L'édition sans éditeur, 2001; and, Le contrôle de la parole, La Fabrique, 2005. His publications in English include The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read (2000), in which addresses what he sees as a deep crisis in publishing. His latest publication is the autobiography, A Political Education (Melville House Pub, Hoboken, NJ, 2007).Eurozine Articles
Controlling words
Press and publishing concentration in France is exceptionally high yet there is barely any protest from within the sector itself. Media monopolization is by no means only a French issue, however: throughout Europe and the US, profit has become publishing's bottom line. [Lithuanian version added] [more]
13.03.2008
How to pay for a free press
In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it's getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn't promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn't say or show what is approved. But it's still possible. [more]
07.11.2007