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Only $10.5 Billion to Save the Book Industry: Lay Off 137,500 American Writers

Dec 13, 2008 11:16

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According to Paul Greenberg in New York TImes, it could cost as little as $10.5 billion to solve the writing crisis.
“According to the industry tracker Bowker, about 275,000 new titles and editions are published in the United States each year. Let’s say we want to eliminate half of them. Assuming it takes about two years [...]

 

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