Jan 27 2009
According to Time Magazine, Old Publishing and New Publishing Are Setting New Paradigms
Not that Old Publishing will disappear–for now, at least, it's certainly the best way for authors to get the money and status they need to survive–but it will live on in a radically altered, symbiotic form as the small, pointy peak of a mighty pyramid. If readers want to pay for the old-school premium package, they can get their literature the old-fashioned way: carefully selected and edited, and presented in a bespoke, art-directed paper package. But below that there will be a vast continuum of other options: quickie print-on-demand editions and electronic editions for digital devices, with a corresponding hierarchy of professional and amateur editorial selectiveness. (Unpaid amateur editors have already hit the world of fan fiction, where they're called beta readers.) The wide bottom of the pyramid will consist of a vast loamy layer of free, unedited, Web-only fiction, rated and ranked YouTube-style by the anonymous reading masses.
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Feb 01, 2009 @ 21:21:41
As articles go, it demonstrated an apparently very shallow understanding of publishing. For example saying reading is not down based in the internet-inclusive survey results. Whatever is happening to reading per se, book sales are down.
Also the logical inconsistency of saying old publishing is dying, but measuring self-published books as successful becayse they get picled up by those same “old” publishers.
All fluff, IMHO.