Saturday, August 09, 2014

Amazon and Hatchette

If you're interested in the ongoing Amazon/Hatchette imbroglio, you might also be interested in this little essay, written long, long ago, which I think shows a few parallels.

Allan Guthrie's NOIR ORIGINALS: PAPERBACK ORIGINALS by Bill Crider

2 comments:

Todd Mason said...

I wouldn't've guessed that the Jakes BICENTENNIAL series began as long ago as '71, or was that a revision entry in the article?

I'm reminded of the friction that arose between Marijane Meaker, writing most often then as Vin Packer for Gold Medal, and her life-partner/all-but-wife Patricia Highsmith in the late '50s, as Meaker was pulling down serious money, but critical attention pretty much limited to the not-insignificant Anthony Boucher/H. H. Holmes in his NYC papers gigs, and Highsmith was being praised to the skies nearly universally and making pathetic money in comparison, at least, from her consistent publication by Knopf.

mybillcrider said...

I honestly don't remember when I added that bicentennial bit, but that series didn't begin until '74.