"...parallels between the way mass market paperbacks and e-books have and are changing the publishing landscape is striking.
The key difference is that in the seventies it was the young, thrusting paperback houses – the Headline’s of this world - who, by simply showing greater market savvy were able to grow fast and swallow up their venerable and far bigger competitors. It was an organic process.
The difference now is that the interlopers are not sleek minnows but Amazon, Google and Apple. Corporate giants capable of swallowing publishers whole. Relationships between agents and publishers are often strained but I have yet to meet an agent who relishes the prospect of those three dominating the publishing landscape. It is hard to see that as a world that would be better for writers."
