What's more, Ireland and the story of
change in the publishing industry really acts as a microcosm for the rest of the English language publishing industry (indeed it acts as a microcosm for any small market which shares a language with a much larger market be it French or German or Spanish or Chinese).
Not exact matches
The digital revolution and its subsequent self -
publishing hey day have perhaps sparked more
change in literature and
publishing than any event since Gutenberg started tinkering, but for all of the great talk of «equalizing» and breaking down barriers, what
industry watchers were
really referring to was text - based novels.
The digital revolution and its subsequent self -
publishing hey day have perhaps sparked more
change in literature and
publishing than any event since Gutenberg started tinkering, but for all of the great talk of «equalizing» and breaking down barriers, what
industry watchers were
really referring to was text - based... [Read more...]
Speaking of
change in the
industry, he says, «I
really believe
in publishers and
publishing, [and that] publishers serve a tremendously important role
in literature
in the U.S. Even if that's not a statement
in favor of print, hopefully it's a statement about quality.
A
publishing company at that level, doing for authors what they
in years past had to do on their own, could
really change the
industry.
Now that I've been running Biteback for 4 years I have re-discovered just what a bonkers
industry publishing really is — and how much it has
changed in the last decade.