Thursday: Publishing and Optimism

In which I briefly discuss the publishing crisis and hope for stories in the future. Also, the ghetto tripod hogs the screen.
And an article on cell phone novels: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html

Links:

The first news I read on Wednesday morning, December the 3rd: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/books/black_wednesday_in_publishing_102...
Sara Nelson (newly deposed) Editor for Publisher's Weekly says it better than I ever could: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6620446.html?industryid=47210
A bit of hope, an editor loses her job, and then the authors get it back for her: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/the_revolving_door/drenka_willen_returns...
And interesting article on digital media and how it's changing the way we see literature: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1873122,00.html

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[OzAnthony]

You're absolutely right... stories will always be around. This is very informative and well said =)

[nunshavingfun]

smarty pants KL strikes randomly!

[katilara]

Word. It's already evolved so much. We can't expect it to stop evolving, to stand still when everything around it is moving. The stories will adapt. It's not the stories that have issues with it, it's the people.

[surferartchick]

I'm actually going to be really lazy and copy & paste my thoughts from John's Blog

Those who write will always write. The medium will change with the times. The stories will always evolve to suit the needs of writers to tell their tale. The times may change but a writers passion will always prove to adapt to the moment and continue on.

[katilara]

There are people who are doing it successfully. Publishing is just a lumbering beast. It's going to take a while to slow it down and get it to really pay attention.

And that would be interesting from a library point of view! What will libraries do with all of the different mediums that are coming out?

[Katiefoolery]

I definitely agree - there are always going to be stories. It's just becoming more and more obvious that the stories may not necessarily be read in books. It has to be difficult for the publishing industry to compete with technologies that move so swiftly.

You have me thinking, though - I may be talking about this whole thing from a library point of view next week. If I can think of anything intelligent to say on it. :D