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McCormack is quite certain that the practice of measuring a book’s potential “contribution,” rather than creating an artificial P&L that incorporated an overhead percentage, was a primary driver of St. Martin’s period of profitable title growth.
Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®


The last three are all about the same size, in the middle triple digit millions in annual sales. Harper Collins is about the size of all three of them, or about $2 billion in sales. And Penguin Random House is about the size of all four of them put together, or about $4 billion in sales.
Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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