LA Times on Independent Publishing
Another great piece from the LA Times on publishing, this one on the Perseus shuttering of Carroll & Graf and Thunder's Mouth.
Has anyone noticed that in the past five-six months, Josh Getlin and Scott Timberg have together done most of the smarter features on book publishing? They pick more substantive topics than Motoko Rich, they interview more people, and the diversity of background of the people interviewed is far broader. Getlin also gave by far the most even-handed account of the print vs blog fracas, while spending the kinda time I guess an LA Times staffer has to spend on the ICM vs. Endeavour agency lawsuit and Scott has done some great ones on post-apocalyptic fiction, the PGW bankruptcy, and Akashic's City Noir series.