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03836aam a2200481 i 4500 001 629357F87A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231103010033 007 ta 008 230515s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023009636 020 $a 0231192940 020 $a 9780231192941 020 $a 0231192959 020 $a 9780231192958 035 $a (OCoLC)1380686225 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d BDX $d UKMGB $d PAU $d OCLCO $d IUO $d QGK $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a Z480 F53 S56 2023 100 1 $a Sinykin, Dan, $e author. 245 10 $a Big fiction : $b how conglomeration changed the publishing industry and American literature / $c Dan Sinykin. 246 30 $a How conglomeration changed the publishing industry and American literature 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xii, 313 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Literature now 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Mass Market (I): How Mass-Market Books Changed Publishing -- Mass Market (II): How the Mass Market Won the World, Lost Its Soul -- Then Lost the World -- Trade (I): How Women Resisted Sexism and Reinvented the Novel -- Trade (II): How Literary Writers Embraced Genre -- Nonprofit: How Rebels Found Funding and Rejected New York -- Independent: How W.W. Norton Stayed Free and Housed the Misfits. 520 $a "In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with authors like Ralph Ellison while pouring drinks in his office. By the late 1960s, he was poring over profit-and-loss statements. What happened? Beginning in 1965 after RCA bought Random House and then with subsequent purchases of publishing companies by multinational conglomerates, the business of publishing started to change. With more of an emphasis on rationalization, many publishers began to focus on genre and brand name authors. However, amidst a changing marketplace, other publishers found new avenues and possibilities to publish literary and experimental fiction. In Big Fiction, Dan Sinykin examines how changes in the publishing industry affected fiction and literary form. Beginning with RCA's purchase of Random House in 1965 to the invention of the Amazon Kindle in 2007, Sinkyin reveals how power situated in multinational media conglomerates and disseminated through the book publishing industry has influenced what kind of fiction and authors get published. In considering how publishers pursued profits and prestige, Sinykin examines four different sectors of the industry: mass market books and the rise of superstar authors such as Danielle Steel; the changing focus of Random House as a trade publisher; the rise of nonprofits such as Graywolf; and the employee-owned Norton. He also considers how women and writers of color navigated shifts in the publishing industry and allegorized their experiences in their fiction"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fiction $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Publishing $z United States. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $x Economic aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $x Mergers $z United States. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Authors and publishers $z United States. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z United States. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sinykin, Dan. $t Big fiction $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] $z 9780231550062 $w (DLC) 2023009637 830 0 $a Literature Now. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231103012504.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=629357F87A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search