remarkably’s Reviews > Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature > Status Update

'It’s true, conglomerates took over publishing and changed how and what we read—and how and what writers write. But Schiffrin was still too resentful, too close to it, to see much other than avarice. This book defers judgment about whether conglomeration was good or bad in an effort to explain what it has meant for U.S. fiction and how we should read it.' — worthy exercise but I think it's fine to see avarice there