Post by account_disabled on Dec 5, 2023 5:39:31 GMT
The prospect is not exciting, yet I'm not surprised, because I already had an inkling of this trend. I talked about it some time ago, mentioning a publishing house that would carry out "heavy editing" on valid manuscripts to adapt to a certain market. But we see it for ourselves when we go to the bookshop. Twilight comes out and novels about vampires are pouring in, just as there was a boom in copies of Tolkien's work before. And finally the zombies arrive , never dead because they are born already dead. Obey the publishing market Publishing is no longer entrepreneurship, then? Because an entrepreneur is someone who also aims for innovation, who experiments, who tries, who takes risks.
Of course, talking about risk during a crisis is crazy, but if you don't take risks Phone Number Data when there's a crisis, when can you do it? We then obey the flow decided by the market. But who is the market? We are the readers, let's not forget it. We can't always blame the publishing market, because it's like blaming society if something doesn't work. The society that is made up of individuals, of us. It is the writer who creates the publishing market It would be nice if it were possible. But in a certain sense it is, because we who love writing can say no to the copy-paste habit and choose to be independent writers . Self-publishing may not be for everyone but it's a reality. We can offer the reading public the innovation that is missing, the push to take risks, the experiment that works.
If we really believe it, we move forward and if something doesn't work, we try something else. The true writer is the one who chooses to write the history of new publishing. CLICK TO TWEET Twisting a story to follow the market Ferruccio's words and also the example of heavy editing are dangerous operations for the quality of the works, of the book-product to be put on sale. They denote a lack of respect for the reader and the author. But above all, I wonder, how long will works like this work? I go into the bookshop and find a shelf with at least 20 vampire novels: which one do I choose? Every publisher wants to get a slice of the bloodsucking market, but in that case there is no slice, at most a bite .
Of course, talking about risk during a crisis is crazy, but if you don't take risks Phone Number Data when there's a crisis, when can you do it? We then obey the flow decided by the market. But who is the market? We are the readers, let's not forget it. We can't always blame the publishing market, because it's like blaming society if something doesn't work. The society that is made up of individuals, of us. It is the writer who creates the publishing market It would be nice if it were possible. But in a certain sense it is, because we who love writing can say no to the copy-paste habit and choose to be independent writers . Self-publishing may not be for everyone but it's a reality. We can offer the reading public the innovation that is missing, the push to take risks, the experiment that works.
If we really believe it, we move forward and if something doesn't work, we try something else. The true writer is the one who chooses to write the history of new publishing. CLICK TO TWEET Twisting a story to follow the market Ferruccio's words and also the example of heavy editing are dangerous operations for the quality of the works, of the book-product to be put on sale. They denote a lack of respect for the reader and the author. But above all, I wonder, how long will works like this work? I go into the bookshop and find a shelf with at least 20 vampire novels: which one do I choose? Every publisher wants to get a slice of the bloodsucking market, but in that case there is no slice, at most a bite .