Sublime

In 1985, there were twelve key trade companies for whom we were able to get estimates of earnings. When we applied 2015 ownership to these twelve companies, the number shrank down to six companies that now controlled the volume encompassed by the twelve in our estimate in 1985. The top three companies in 1985 covered 48 percent of the trade busines

Idea-Centric books and book covers generate superior unit economics inside the Personal Development and Insights/Thinking categories.

Today there are five major US consumer publishers capable of publishing books in all formats and in all topics and consistently delivering bestsellers. They are Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

As the publishing business has consolidated, particularly with big houses putting pressure on their editors to be expeditious, the time and bandwidth editors have for actually editing has diminished. That means that agents, who care deeply about the success their authors’ books will achieve, are doing more editing to maintain quality. The agents’ r

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