Thomas Riggs's Article in Business

535 Publishers and Publishing: Why We Still Need Them
Publishing is a $30 billion industry that relies on one of the oldest and most basic of human creations, the word. If people initially used words to express simple ideas and feelings, they eventually sought more complicated ends—preserving extended thoughts, transmitting them to other people, both near and far, and creating structures, such as laws, plays, and sonnets, that were aided by the ability to record, arrange, and store words for later use.
Posted on Oct-16-2009