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Benjamin L. Schiffrin...
...bookstore’s lengthy legacy and healthy business practices, it is a member of a dying breed. The number of independent bookstores has been on a sharp decline in America for the past 50 years. According to The Business of Books, by Director of the New Press Andre Schiffrin, New York City had 333 independent book stores in 1945. In 2001, there were only 76. According to publishersweekly.com, Harvard Square was recently home to 25 book sellers; now, only five notable stores remain. Evidence of this trend is visible in the soon to be vacated back room...
...sports announcing and journalism. Terkel's earlier ambition was "to have a nice civil service job." It is hard to imagine. His disdain for bureaucracy and sympathy for the underdog would have produced an unlikely paper pusher. The crusty populism asserted itself two years ago when his publisher, Andre Schiffrin, was forced out as head of Pantheon by the parent | company, Random House. Dramatically terming the dismissal "a barbaric act," Terkel left the world of bottom-line publishing to join Schiffrin at the New Press, established earlier this year as a foundation-supported specialist in social issues. Race...
...home, where she was vacationing. Soon after Robert Bernstein resigned in November after 23 years as president of Random House, a seemingly orchestrated campaign portrayed him as having shown insufficient regard for profit margins during the previous five fast-growing years, in which company revenues doubled. And after Andre Schiffrin left in February as head of Random House's esteemed Pantheon division, where profit had always been secondary to literary eclat, company officials hastened to portray him as fiscally incompetent. In April, as if to underscore the insult, Pantheon named a new executive editor, Erroll McDonald...
...began the interview by talking about the genesis of "Working," giving full credit for the idea behind the book to Andre Schiffrin, his editor...