Ninth in the Line of Cultural Currency
Book Riot - The Podcast
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The Importance of Collective Bargaining in Publishing
I don't know enough about the history of Hollywood to know if like all of the stars for a studio engaged in any kind of collective bargaining at any point but you could imagine somebody might try that now or and that might be more effective like as we saw with the union at you know Harper Collins to bring it back to publishing. I think that's an important piece of it too and thinking about like would authors take a deal like the NBA deal it made me think about how movie studios used to operate where a star would be attached to a particular studio over a certain number of years. It feels crazy making to get for someone to somehow aggregate publishing employees across the big five and then all of the
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