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The interview of the day is Lloyd Grove’s interview for Portfolio<\/i> of the literary agent Andrew Wylie<\/a>. An answer I liked:<\/p>\n

\n

Grove<\/b>: Tell me, how big is the book industry? I’ve seen statistics that in the United States, it’s somewhere north of $30 billion. I don’t know what it is, $25 billion to $26 billion in Europe? But that’s the whole industry. It’s a relatively small industry. Dwarfed by television, by Google, by the internet.<\/p>\n

Wylie<\/b>: Dwarfed by shoe shining.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full interview<\/a>, it’s excellent.<\/p>\n

(Link via Prufrock’s Page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The interview of the day is Lloyd Grove’s interview for Portfolio<\/i> of the literary agent Andrew Wylie<\/a>. An answer I liked:<\/p>\n

\n

Grove<\/b>: Tell me, how big is the book industry? I’ve seen statistics that in the United States, it’s somewhere north of $30 billion. I don’t know what it is, $25 billion to $26 billion in Europe? But that’s the whole industry. It’s a relatively small industry. Dwarfed by television, by Google, by the internet.<\/p>\n

Wylie<\/b>: Dwarfed by shoe shining.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full interview<\/a>, it’s excellent.<\/p>\n

(Link via Prufrock’s Page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDo Not Write (Shine Shoes Instead) - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/do-not-write-shine-shoes-instead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do Not Write (Shine Shoes Instead) - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The interview of the day is Lloyd Grove’s interview for Portfolio of the literary agent Andrew Wylie. An answer I liked: Grove: Tell me, how big is the book industry? 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