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Article: Los Angeles books a new industry. (Knightsbridge Publishing Co.)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 23, 1990
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Los Angeles books a new industry
Books are the last thing anyone expects to come from Los Angeles, for all the city's much vaunted economic diversity.
Exceptions might be made for "New Age" books on the occult, mysticism, spiritualism, crystals - the types of books found at the Bodhi Tree, the West Hollywood bookstore - but no mainstream books.
Commonly dismissed as a literary wasteland, Los Angeles is, after all, about as far as you can get in the continental U.S. from the great commercial trade publishers of New York City, both geographically and psychologically.
"If you're from Los Angeles, you are not taken seriously," said Gerald S. ...