What's the "morton's fork" that Matt refers to?
US ports aren't secure? You're kidding, right? As a visa-holding non-USian I've had to be fingerprinted and photographed entering the US and as a result not only missed my connecting flight but every other connecting flight that day. So you're telling me that they can spend the money to inconvenience human beings who've already been searched up the wazoo, but they can't come up with a dime to make sure there are no nuclear weapons in inanimate container ships? That's insane.
Christina, it's not book geeky wanting to know "the methodology and biases and long-term effects of both the bookstores' and publishers' market research . . . [the] real numbers for how publisher consolidation has affected the number of working editors" etc. etc.
What you describe would have been a wonderful, useful article. I'd buy any book that covered all those areas. The majority of writing I've read on contemporary publishing are like this Salon one: long on anecdote and misery and short on economic and social research and analysis as to why publishing works the way it does.
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