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Editor's Digest: The Age of the Blockbuster
Jim Rutter
“Artists struggle to survive in age of the blockbuster”: The Internet should have liberated publishing houses from chasing after the next best-selling novel. Instead, the rise of giant online distributors like Amazon have shuttered bookstores, elevated the importance of “winner-take-all” annual prizes, and forced second-tier novelists to market their own works.
(Russell Smith, The Globe and Mail, November 28, 2013.)
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