Comments on: Are publishers & bookstores placing all their eggs in one basket? http://www.bradsreader.com/2009/09/are-publishers-bookstores-placing-all-their-eggs-in-one-basket/ All Things Literature & Writing Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:37:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Faxon http://www.bradsreader.com/2009/09/are-publishers-bookstores-placing-all-their-eggs-in-one-basket/comment-page-1/#comment-489 David Faxon Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:32:39 +0000 http://www.bradsreader.com/?p=1302#comment-489 If the newspapers are any indication of where the publishing industry is heading, we can expect major change coming to the way books are published and sold today. You are correct, the change has begun but I don't think it will be as gradual as you predict. Software innovation and printing technology, particularly, POD, is placing self publishing ahead of the curve. Publishers and agents may have to sit up and take notice before the train leaves the station. This can be both good and bad. Good that a lot of fresh material will come available (as opposed to reprints from established authors that the publishers find financially safe) and bad that floodgates will be open for works that aren't serious or poorly done. Until now, agents have always handled that task. In any event, change is here. David If the newspapers are any indication of where the publishing industry is heading, we can expect major change coming to the way books are published and sold today. You are correct, the change has begun but I don’t think it will be as gradual as you predict.

Software innovation and printing technology, particularly, POD, is placing self publishing ahead of the curve. Publishers and agents may have to sit up and take notice before the train leaves the station.

This can be both good and bad. Good that a lot of fresh material will come available (as opposed to reprints from established authors that the publishers find financially safe) and bad that floodgates will be open for works that aren’t serious or poorly done. Until now, agents have always handled that task.

In any event, change is here.

David

]]>