"Sadly, now, publishing is almost entirely a matter of profitability, meaning that if you want to publish something that is immediately profitable, it’s very rare that it will turn out to be predicated on strong ideas, or dissident ideas.”
“That’s a big problem. It has considerably reduced the amount of good books published”.
… “without a free publishing industry, there can be no democracy.”
“Books today have become mere adjuncts to the world of mass media, offering light entertainment and reassurances that all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds … The resulting control on the spread of ideas is stricter than anyone would have thought possible in a free society.”
Sources:
http://www.thewhitereview.org/interviews/interview-with-andre-schiffrin/
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/12/books-must-stop-beingasideshowtomassmedia.html
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