Online Only, posted 10.21.11:
"In this sober take on the state of the publishing industry, Curtis White—academic, social critic, and president of the board of Directors of the Center for Book Culture—writes, 'As far as I’m concerned, the book business deserves to die if for no other reason than that its business model is something out of the 1930s.' (Lapham's Quarterly)"
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Does the Book Business Deserve to Die? Reading Norman Mailer in Cuba, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
I ran across the article above not long ago and thought I would share a quote from it with you. I think it about sums up the 'state of the publishing industry.' :
"I hope the industry is flexible enough to absorb new technology and new century/millennium
business models, open their closed shop, and pass their innovations along to the authors who support
them, the readers who are their everything, and others who may not have an east coast/west coast
attitude but would like to work in the publishing industry."
--e. smith sleigh
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