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Publishing Industry
Publishing Industry news and analysis from The Nation
January 22, 2009
An unfinished memoir by the late literary editor and critic. The first part of a two-part article.
January 22, 2009
The economy of reading is rapidly collapsing. If we can bail out banks, why not the book industry?
December 18, 2008
An editor ponders the publishing industry meltdown--and the precarious future of books.
March 25, 2008
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
October 15, 2007
Driven by a tabloid episode from her own marriage, the novelist joins the debate over the mass marketing of trashy books to young black readers.
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July 11, 2007
You thought Arthur was gone for good? The indie magazine beloved for its music coverage and antiwar politics will resume publishing this summer.
March 6, 2007
No matter what you think of The New Republic 's politics, the public sphere will suffer if the magazine becomes homogenized by its new corporate owner.
May 4, 2006
The plagiarism flap over Opal Mehta is essentially a story
about clichés and stereotypes passing from one subliterary commercial
product to another.
January 26, 2006
James Frey's faux memoir exposes corporate publishing as an
industry so starved for bestsellers that it is unable to protect
itself from fraud.
January 13, 2006
The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey's
The recent controversy over false claims in James Frey's
best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces" raises questions about
the ethics of the author and of the publishing industry at large.
This article opened a 1978 The Nation forum on "Truth in
Publishing."
