Before Our Eyes: Inside the Changing World of Book Publishing

Literary Nonfiction. Publishing. Based on interviews with a wide range of people whose daily work involves the creation, promotion and distribution of books, a group of Syracuse University students, the Soling Collective, offers in these pages a collection of provocative essays on the evolution of a highly volatile enterprise—equal parts commerical and creative—the American book publishing industry.

"The inquisitive minds responsible for BEFORE OUR EYES do justice to our most essential medium—here is both a study and a celebration of the book."—Michael Signorelli, Editor, HarperCollins