What we read today was shaped by economic forces that transformed publishing decades ago. 📚
In BIG FICTION on the Future Knowledge #podcast, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin explains how consolidation, new distribution systems & chain bookstores created the conditions for a new publishing model, in conversation with humanities scholar Ted Underwood.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big-fiction
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