About My Brilliant Mistakes
This is the blog of Cynthia Closkey — web designer, writer, and all-around swell gal.
Recently
Holiday Music Countdown: Numbers 25 to 23, with mambo, sleigh rides, and sanity restoration ( 4 December 2007)
Yo ( 3 December 2007)
All the fun that's fit to print ( 2 December 2007)
The day after: thoughts on my Month Impossible ( 1 December 2007)
Month Impossible: Day Thirty, This is the end (30 November 2007)
Subscribe!
This site is powered by an incredibly old version of
Movable Type (2.661)
Advertisements
November Was Busy
NaNoWriMo 2007
Participant 
Archives
« Previous | Most recent | Next »
Friday morning mini-rant: the state of publishing
Friday, 26 March 2004 10:51 AM
Stephany Aulenback wonders when electronic books and print-on-demand will come into their own.
I think e-books are waiting for the right delivery mechanism, devices that are easier to read from than the tiny screens on PDAs.
But I don't see any such holdup for print on demand -- the hurdles seem to be in people, in old mindsets and inertia. It's crazy that a finished book takes so long to hit the shelves, that print runs must be so large, that an author can earn just 70 cents per copy sold. It's too broken a business model to sustain itself much longer.
Permanent link | Categories: Writing/publishing
Copyright © 2004 – 2007 Cynthia Closkey