Saw this youtube video posted on a blog and thought posters here might be interested in it.
Stick with it, it does something interesting at the middle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxg ... ety_mode=1
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The future of publishing
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MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3565
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
I definitely think reading in all forms is on the upswing. And the global literacy rate is continually rising, especially in English, although translating from one language to another is getting exponentially easier.
Its the publishing industry of the last century that I think is vanishing faster than the Yankee Trader faced with a Sears Roebuck mail-order catalog.
Figuring out how to struggle out of the slush pile when it is not confined to an agent or editor's office, but knee-deep around the internet -- that's the problem.
I suppose writers are going to have to work even harder and get much much better.
Its the publishing industry of the last century that I think is vanishing faster than the Yankee Trader faced with a Sears Roebuck mail-order catalog.
Figuring out how to struggle out of the slush pile when it is not confined to an agent or editor's office, but knee-deep around the internet -- that's the problem.
I suppose writers are going to have to work even harder and get much much better.
