The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.