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Daniel Menaker, “longtime book editor,” has shared a paean in Slate “In praise of the publishers who move units and readers.” And after the “15 years I was at Random House, almost five of them as editor-in-chief,” he’s naturally in a position to know whereof he speaks. Intimately. Cosily. Among many objections that Menaker has […]
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Authors, if you ever feel that publishers are your last rocks and refuges in the Amazon Apocalypse; politicians, if you ever felt moved to listen to another copyright extension or DCMA lobbyist; booksellers, if you ever felt that the big guys had your back – read on below. Because Daniel Menaker bares all, in , [...]
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Last week, Amazon New York publisher Larry Kirshbaum sat down for an interview with writer and former Random House editor Daniel Menaker at Stony Brook Southampton’s “Writers Speak Wednesday.” Here are the most interesting things he said.
“Despite the fact that Amazon is a very large company on the retail side, as you all know, we’re really a very small publisher. We’re a startup. We only have about 20, 25 people.… In a lot of ways, we are operating it as a small publishing house.
