Rodale Books goes the way of the random penguin
In 1930, Jerome Irving (J.I.) Rodale, feeling encouraged by the success of his family’s electric switch manufacturing business, started a small, eccentric publishing company. With the idea of mixing periodicals and… Read more »
Local media outlets keep getting swallowed up by conglomerates, and that’s bad for all of us
Back in a more innocent time—August of 2016—John Oliver did a story on the importance of local media. He talked about what would happen when news outlets discovered that posting… Read more »
Book publishers have shed 25,000 jobs over the last two decades, but hey, at least we’re not newspapers
To the right is a chart of employment numbers in the newspaper, periodical, book, and internet publishing industries over the last twenty-five years. The data, along with mean salary and employment numbers, broken… Read more »