Trade Publishing Stands At Risk Of Committing Hi-tech Suicide

Trade Publishing Stands At Risk Of Committing Hi-tech Suicide
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Crazed rush to strip perceived value from the art, skill and labour of
writers everywhere
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/28971
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/boyd-tonkin-the-man-who-starved-literature-2063024.html
'...as they already treat journalistic and musical talent – as an effectively cost-free service that should arrive on tap, almost gratis. ...'
'...In Britain, the catastrophic double whammy of the late 1990s – the abolition of statutory price maintenance for books, backed with a refusal to enact US-style controls on monopolistic discounts ...proper value of an expensively-produced £20 hardback lay somewhere around £7.99. Supermarkets had already steamrollered publishers with their piled-high, flogged-cheap way with bestsellers when "kindle" still meant lighting a fire under a pile of unwanted paper. ...prices in its iBookstore at a level at which the art, and business, of the book has some hope of long-term viability. ...'
'...But writers themselves, along with their readers, need to think and talk in earnest about the future economics of their calling. So far, this conversation has scarcely begun. ...'



Joseph Harris is Smile Poet
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