![]() I don't believe the big houses will disappear (though we may well see more mergers, so that there will be fewer of them), though I do think they'll need to change and adapt their business models (since breaking federal law didn't turn out to be such a great solution to the challenges they face in the 21st century), and we're meanwhile seeing the rise of small presses, midsize presses, epublishers, freelancers, a resurgence of the short fiction world (thanks to the low production costs of epublishing)-not to mention how many more books you can "read" in a year now that audio formats are becoming more affordable and accessible, too, which also gives writers access to an additional income stream.Īnd, yeah, I am TOTALLY AGAINST using the middle class's hard-earned and hard-paid tax dollars to bail out more big corporations just because they're run poorly. I was just reading an article today, via The Passive Voice, about the Kindle Single program-great example of a selective editorial publishing program operating in a new business model and releasing stuff for which it has long been very hard to find a publishing home (works of 5,000-20,000 words in fiction and nonfiction). while there is meanwhile lots of room, rapidly expanding, for all sorts of new business models. There's less room than there used to be for the old business models, and there will be still less room in future. Similarly, there's plenty of room in the new and changing book world for publishers and editors. The change in venue is a change in venue, not a destruction of book culture. If there is less demand for physical bookstores, there is more demand for online bookstores-something that didn't even -exist- during my first few years as a writer, yet now probably the most common way to buy books. But I -also- love online bookstores, and I'd like to see more them-not the ones we've already got (I'm so disappointed in BN.com, iBooks,, Diesel, etc.), but more GOOD ones, more that adapt and experiment and evolve into great online bookseller business models. I also love bookstores, and I love visiting them, and I hope some remain open near me and near all of you, you. I love libraries, and given how busy my local libraries are (and how often I have to reserve a book because others are reading it when I try to check it out), I would say the threats to their existence are all in budget cuts, not the changing book industry. ![]()
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