A crise contínua dos livros

A ler este artigo do autor Lawrence Osborne sobre a crise dos livros que, segundo o autor, já vem de longe. Excertos:

«[Publishing] is always in crisis, the way that people suffering from emphysema always have coughs.
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Very little of the recent cutbacks and consolidation are the product of the economic meltdown. They are the result of several years of bad decisions.
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In other words, publishing has drifted into the paper-thin celebrity culture that defines just about every other domain, and which is rendering American culture as dull and monotonous as anything in Western history.»