When independent authors speak of being rejected by agents and editors in
the traditional side of the industry, there is frequently a gathering of support and fellow - feeling for them, and this is good on a human level, of course.
Not exact matches
Unless there will be a stripe painted down the middle
of the conference, relegating the
traditional industry to one
side and the self - publishing
industry to the other, the intention
of the event is to empower anyone who has any involvement at all in the world
of books to better understand the nature
of the
industry in its current climate.
While authors and
industry experts on both
sides of the table have almost come to a consensus that there are benefits to both self - publishing and
traditional publishing, it almost feels as though some more hardcore fans
of either
side still won't lay to rest their original sentiments about the other camp.
When I write that the
traditional book publishing
industry sometimes «appears to be operated by 5 big
traditional book publishers in New York for their sole benefit, the rest
of the
industry be damned» I thought it would be clear that I not in the stands cheering for that
side of the
industry.
(3) And if either
side is to grapple effectively with genuine questions
of authors» rights and the
traditional publishing
industry's stance on them, is it truly authentic to keep casting all this as something about the readers?
My commercial success is on the
industry side, as an editorial director, publisher, and digital content strategist at
traditional publications — someone who acquires material and edits writers for publication across a variety
of channels.
Marc, I have tremendous respect for the authors you mention, and many others who are doing remarkable work on both
traditional and self - publishing
sides of the
industry, such as CJ Lyons.
But most people in today's publishing
industry — on both
sides of the self - publishing fence — agree on the definition
of traditional / legacy publishing.
Thriller and suspense remained strong in
traditional publishing, while romance,
of course, has migrated heavily to the self - publishing
side of the
industry.
Along with a host
of traditional beautification efforts, such as the planting
of some 300,000 trees, Mayor Richard Daley's administration is also working to make the city a model
of how
industry and ecology, city and nature, can flourish
side - by -
side.
**** Big Wind's Dirty Little Secret: Toxic Lakes and Radioactive Waste Right
Side News Travis Fisher and Alex Fitzsimmons
of IER 23 October 2013 The wind
industry promotes itself as better for the environment than
traditional energy sources such as coal and natural gas.
What the contrarians need is not to win rationally the argument for / against man - made global warming (this has been resolved scientifically) but plant doubt in the public and politicians, because inaction and the status quo is on the
side of the
traditional energy
industry.