Why Publishing's Labor Reckoning Could Change Books for the Better: Trident Media Group's Mark Gottlieb Declares The Passion Tax Comes Due

Source: International Business Times

Mark Gottlieb, Executive Vice President of Trident Media Group Mark Gottlieb, a literary agent and executive vice president of Trident Media Group, has observed that a labor reckoning has arrived in publishing, and this time the conversation is reaching far beyond office policy. Editorial assistants, marketers, publicists, and production teams across the industry are questioning an economic structure that, for decades, has relied on devotion to literature as compensation for instability and stagnant wages. Amid that prevailing burnout culture, Mark Gottlieb sees the current wave of unionization as a larger referendum on the future of creative industries.