Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century

Laurence Kirshbaum—former CEO of the Time Warner Book Group—to head its own book-publishing venture, e

The 2000 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Kansas City

That same year, Stephen King published online his novella Riding the Bullet—the first high-profile e-book—and books as diverse as Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Susan Sontag’s In America, David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans, Joseph Brodsky’s Collected Poems, and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire garnered large-scale interest.

pioneering online literary magazines were gaining readership—Cortland Review, Jacket, and La Petite Zine

print-on-demand publisher

Fence and McSweeney’s had just launched in 1998, changing the look and feel of American literary magazines about as much as The Paris Review

back when only one in three American adults reported using email at home,