Books by John B. Thompson

2. John B. Thompson, Book Wars: The Digital Revolution .  Thompson’s Merchants of Culture was surprisingly excellent, now the quality is no longer a surprise.  This book covers the Kindle revolution (now dominated by romances), Google books, how electronic publishing rights evolved, crowdfunding books, the ascent of Amazon, and much more.  In all or most of these areas he offers you more substance and more inside scoops than the other discussions you might have read, thus recommended.

1. John B. Thompson, Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century .  By an order of magnitude, this is the best book on the economics of contemporary publishing.  It covers the UK scene as well.