The monkey and the organ-grinder: a timeless relationship between book authors and their publishers.
This article focuses on subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle discrimination authors experience because of their enforced relationship with their publisher. Giving pertinent examples, the article asserts that this is no new phenomenon, and that the dominant publisher-over-author nexus stretches back at...
| Publicado en: | Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 705 - 713 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2015
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