Zoya Patel: Canberra mavericks boost publishing world

By Zoya Patel
Updated April 23 2018 - 11:11pm, first published December 2 2014 - 11:29am

It's all doom and gloom in the publishing industry these days. Two of the biggest commercial publishing houses, Random House and Penguin merged in 2013, to the alarm of authors and small publishers alike. "Random Penguin", as we like to call it, now controls a quarter of the world's total book publishing, a monopoly that could push smaller publishers out of the market. Added to that is the continued loss of jobs in publishing, the ongoing drop in sales for physical books, and the looming threat of huge retailers like Amazon, which are slowly strangling book stores the world over.

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