Author Matt Briggs’ Journey to Print on Demand
January 27th, 2011 | 
Author: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2013876849_litlife10.html?syndication=rss
Interesting article about the failure of the traditional publishing model in today’s environment:
Here’s the way publishing used to work, when it worked well: Author writes book, gets an agent. Agent submits book to publisher. Publisher likes book, pays author decent advance, prints up copies of book. Reviews ensue. Book can be found in bookstores, readers buy books. Readers (hopefully) like book and tell their friends. Author and publisher make money.
This model has been fractured. Advances are anorexic. Bookstores are thinner on the ground. Newspaper reviews, once the mainstay of highlighting a book, have declined. There are now thousands of books blogs, but a relative few of them can get the word out to more than a few readers.
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Yep. It sucks to be writer. It’s sad The degree of success I once hoped to achieve seems to be going from merely unlikely to outright impossible. Good thing I have other career options now.
They didn’t even discuss the impact of eBooks in all this. Those of us with novels ready to submit really have to wonder what the business model is going to look like three or four years down the road.
If I’d known about his reading, I might have gone.