Publishing's 169 Years of Disruption, Told in Six Freakouts
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 1, 2011
The 29-year-old father of four (he would eventually be blessed with six more children) and already-famous author was writing up a storm and squeezing every penny he could from each word he wrote. Then 1939 snuck up on publishers. No, not World War II, but rather the introduction of the first mass market paperback.
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