What are the economics of publishing for the US left?
In South Africa the minimum is about 700 softback copies, which isn't easy here. michael a. lebowitz wrote:
Well, not only market-driven publishers. I remember talking with Harry Magdoff years ago, posing the idea of doing a book on Marx's Capital (probably what ultimately became 'Beyond CAPITAL') and he said, why don't you write something that could sell some books so we [at MR] can support publishing books that won't sell much?
