In his keynote address opening the book session of the NYU Summer Publishing Institute, Brian Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Publishers, assuaged our frantic, job-desiring minds. “Depending on what you read and when you read it, you’ll see a whole lot of headlines telling us about publishing is dead,” said Murray. It depends on who is writing these negative stories, he added. Some might have an agenda behind them, or be based on misinterpreted facts. “But for every one of these articles saying publishing is dead, there’s one saying that big publishing companies are doing great,” Murray noted. “I actually think it is an extremely exhilarating time to be in publishing. From where I sit, looking at all these different markets and all the different publishing we do, I don’t think it’s ever been as exciting or as dynamic as right now.”
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