Why So Many Book Publishers Are Still In New York

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When publishing outsiders are suggesting cures for what ails the business, one very common suggestion is that publisher ditch their New York real estate and head for the sticks. Why do they need to pay Manhattan rent?

Why indeed?

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Comments

[hairydodger]

02:57 AM on 03/28/2011

I published through the Apple iTunes ebook store. They are in California. Dead tree publishers don't know what to do with enhanced ebooks as they are the future and not the past. This is not a commercial post as my ebook, "Box Head Man" is free. Those of you with an iPad are invited to see the future of publishing. It's not like a book as it has lots of videos and takes a little while to download. It is only for the iPad. I feel the Manhattan publishers of paper books will go the way of hand cranked movie cameras or buggy whip makers. it'll take a while but fourth generation digital natives will look at paper books as quite quaint.

[Dunkleberger Karl]

03:15 AM on 03/25/2011

Best Bagels in the world is one answer! the culture of NYC is the Other!
 
suprisingly Chicago dont have more of a publishing center!
 
so close to all that canadian and wisconson Paper mills!

[c-tom]

05:15 PM on 03/24/2011

Of the big 6 publishers 2 are owned by German companies, 1 is French and 1 English. The American owners are Viacom (Redstone) and News Corp (Murdock). The owners aren't based New York.

[Dameocrat]

03:41 PM on 03/24/2011

just like all newspapers are located in the beltway because corporate America assumes the rabble only need reality television, where as there children need literate media.