Comments on: Writers Discuss the Future of Publishing – Round 2 http://www.laurishaw.com/writers-discuss-the-future-of-publishing-round-2/ Read Servicing the Pole Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dan Holloway http://www.laurishaw.com/writers-discuss-the-future-of-publishing-round-2/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Dan Holloway Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:05:56 +0000 http://www.laurishaw.com/?p=427#comment-240 What do I like best about publishing? Well, Lauri, I'm with Alexander pretty much 100%. I fully intend to be in the vanguard of the new breed of authors who tackles the industry head on. My musician friends spit their beer halfway across the room when I tell them what the industry's like! The problem is, we'll only bring about a sea change if we work together - have you tried getting TWO writers to agree on something? That's what the industry relies on. Still, the best thing about the publishing industry? It's such a monolith it won't see us coming! The recession? Hmm, I read publishers talking about what they're taking onto their lists because of the recession and it reinforces everything I thought about how backward they are. If they wanted a recession-busting list they needed to put it together 18 months ago. If they had their finger on the pulse of something other than their own dead corpse they'd be signing the authors writing the books for the start of the new upswing - they could take us on for a pittance. Will they? No! And the result? The casualty of the recession will be the publishing houses, not the writers they publish. What do I like best about publishing? Well, Lauri, I’m with Alexander pretty much 100%. I fully intend to be in the vanguard of the new breed of authors who tackles the industry head on. My musician friends spit their beer halfway across the room when I tell them what the industry’s like!
The problem is, we’ll only bring about a sea change if we work together – have you tried getting TWO writers to agree on something? That’s what the industry relies on.
Still, the best thing about the publishing industry? It’s such a monolith it won’t see us coming!

The recession? Hmm, I read publishers talking about what they’re taking onto their lists because of the recession and it reinforces everything I thought about how backward they are. If they wanted a recession-busting list they needed to put it together 18 months ago. If they had their finger on the pulse of something other than their own dead corpse they’d be signing the authors writing the books for the start of the new upswing – they could take us on for a pittance. Will they? No! And the result? The casualty of the recession will be the publishing houses, not the writers they publish.

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