From Salon, I’m a self-publishing failure, a humorous article, if you are into pathetic scenarios. I kept thinking maybe it’s the glasses and the stupid hat. Check out the link to see what I mean.
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The Business of Literature
An essay by Robert Nash from The Virginia Quarterly Review:
As technology disrupts the business model of traditional publishers, the industry must imagine new ways of capturing the value of a book.
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A big change in the publishing business, from The New York Times:
The potential consolidation comes as traditional publishers try to compete with dominant technology companies like Amazon, Apple and Google that have gained power in the e-book market. Lower prices offered by retailers like Amazon have put pressure on publishers to adjust their digital book strategy at a time when brick-and-mortar stores have been disappearing.
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Navigating the World of Literary Agents
From The Millions:
If it sounds like I’m saying, “It’s all about who you know,” that’s because that is exactly what I’m saying. You can rail about how unfair that is, and how it makes publishing into an incestuous little club, and to a degree you would be right. But that’s the way the machine is built, people.
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From Mental Floss:
Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry.
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From the Guardian, first published online by Ewan Morrison.
Another tech bubble? A critical look at the whole social media sales pitch, which should make my consultant friends at the Colorado Independent Publisher’s Association squirm.
It will burst within the next 18 months. The reason is this: epublishing is inextricably tied to the structures of social media marketing and the myth that social media functions as a way of selling products. It doesn’t, and we’re just starting to get the true stats on that. When social media marketing collapses it will destroy the platform that the dream of a self-epublishing industry was based upon.
Ouch.
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From The dead end of DYI publishing:
Some self-published authors talk about the current developments in militaristic terms: it’s a battle. It’s a war. It’s a revolution that will lead to the death of the publishing industry. Accordingly, the self-publishing sphere has rebranded itself “indie publishing,” even though its venue, Amazon, is the largest, most dominant corporate force in the book world.
Recently, academic and Internet pundit Clay Shirky told Findings.com, “Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word ‘publishing’ means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says ‘publish,’ and when you press it, it’s done.”
The comments are interesting also. (Hat tip: Frank Wilson)
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In a piece titled, “People I’ve never laid yes on” from the above named blog, we see another example of how one succeeds in the traditional publishing world: Have the right friends. (Hat tip: Frank Wilson)
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From PJ Lifestyle (Hat tip: Instapundit).
Okay, I don’t expect what happened to Author Hugh Howey to happen to me, although it would be highly appreciated, but I am seriously thinking of going this route for my next novel. And I am working on it. I just completed a trip Charleston, South Carolina to do research for it.
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