Small Publishers See Similarities in New HarperCollins Unit

Mac Slocum
April 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Listen

Speaking with the The New York Observer, small publishers say they've for years employed the author/retail strategies recently embraced by HarperCollins' new imprint.

"This is exactly what we've been talking about and attempting to do to varying degrees all along,’" said Richard Nash, publisher of Soft Skull Press. “But I don’t think they [HarperCollins] were like, 'oh, let’s look at what independent publishers do and steal it!'

(Via Publishers Weekly.)

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