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From William Goldman’s novel, The Princess Bride (1973):

When I was twenty-six, my first novel, The Temple of Gold, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. (Which is now part of Random House which is now part of R.C.A. which is just part of what’s wrong with publishing in America today which is not part of this story.)

(Note that Knopf is still owned by Random House, but they’re both now part of Bertelsmann.)

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ADDENDUM, later on Thursday — Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a typically incisive* take on the latest bit of horrible news for the U.S. publishing business:

• Making Light: Blood in the gutters at Farrar, Straus

(* “Typically incisive,” in TNH’s case, is a synonym for “routinely brilliant.”)

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Related post:

• “Black Wednesday” strikes book publishing.

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