Cover Story: Susan Isaacs: The Insider Interview
The bestselling author talks candidly about changes in the industry, and how she thinks publishers and authors can better work together.
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That whole charming, cultivated, literary way of doing business started to disappear, and at the same time, other media developed. You had not only the computer—which started out as a tool and then a kids' thing and then somewhere where people can obsessively follow the lives of their tenth-grade boyfriends—but it became a social community. That took time.
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