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Article: For authors, a basic need. (Basic Books Inc.)
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- September 1, 1997
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The impending demise of Basic Books, as reported last week by the nonpareil David Streitfeld of [The Washington Post] is not in and of Itself an inordinately big deal. Publishing houses, like the human beings who operate them, come and go; the death of a good one, such as Basic often was, is to be mourned, but it is part of the natural order of things.
Still, there is more to the end of this small publishing house than the banal and brutal details of its absorption into that soulless corporate mass known as HarperCollins. How books are published in the United States is changing an important ways, with effects upon American literature and high journalism that ...
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