This is a wonderful condensation of lessons about the state of the book industry from the PGH/S&S merger case, by Elle Griffin. My reading: This is the last gasp of mass. https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
@jeffjarvis As someone who has authored several books, does anything in that post make you reconsider the book format for your upcoming work? Are aspiring writers better off exploring other formats (like, I dunno, self-publishing or releasing a work as a serialized newsletter) rather than gambling to become a "traditional" publisher unicorn? Is time better spent building an audience/brand before writing that novel?
@matthew
Sure. But as I say in The Gutenberg Parenthesis: "The book is the book. It is a space between covers to be tamed. Its finitude makes demands upon author and editor, who decide what fits, what is worth saying and what they hope is worth discussing, remembering, and p reserving--though it is the reader who will make those decisions, the readers who finishes making the book."
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