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Aziz Isham

The House of Penguin: Notes on a Publishing Apocalypse

By Aziz Isham × In Conversation

Publishing is the Ottoman Empire of industries—no one who’s studied it has any idea how it’s lasted as long as it has. The truth is, from a distribution point of view, the buyer side of publishing is already well within the control of a single monopoly: Amazon.