Forbes Thinks Amazon is the Future of Publishing
Quoted from Media Bistro:
>>"Let's say, in the new world, Amazon becomes the retailer, marketer, publisher and agent combined and takes 65% of the revenues, offering 35% to the author--we end up with a much better, fairer world."
It would be fairer as far as authors making more for their hard work, but will the media that shuns vanity publishing step up and review those books?<<
Besher's comment:
I wouldn’t worry about the vanity media that shuns self-publishing not reviewing those books. That Gutenberg-throwback is dead and doesn't even realize it (although they suspect something's up). Anyway, they won't be called "books" in the future--and may not even look or feel or sound like one.
Besher's Rx: "If you can't beat them, read them--and then review them!"
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Belle Yang says:
Sasha
Are the reading machines currently capable of displaying art? If this happens, I'll be able to show my art. It's so costly for publishers to print art in books. My first two adult books were expensive.
Alexander Besher says:
Belle, YOU do not need to
Belle, YOU do not need to worry about this sort of tripe. Your work will always be welcome in any shape or form anywhere. To answer your question re reading machines: I'm the only reading machine I know. Never seen a Kindle or the Sony variant. But the technical answer is yes. Kindles etc. are just the earliest most primitive prototypes for reading/viewing in the new media manner. Someone has already developed a new kind of screen that is thin enough to be applied to a T-shirt. Soon EVERYTHING will be "screenable" even Kleenex. So if you leave your "Kindle" upstairs, and you're eating your cereal in the kitchen, you can pick up where you left off on your cereal box. Now that's real fibre!
Eric Nichols says:
Dear Alexander
I think the handwriting is on the wall (except that it's on a Kindle!)
Perhaps the only thing really holding back "alternative" publishing is the uncertainty as to how to get paid. I think the kinks will be worked out pretty soon...the recording industry has certainly learned this.....most musicians have learned that by giving away "free" music, they reap benefits in publicity FAR beyond what dtraconian copyright measures could ever deliver for them.
And you're right....a 65% "commission" might sound exhorbitant, but if sales are increased by 1299%, who cares?
Eric
Alexander Besher says:
Steel, I like that
Steel, I like that "handwriting on the wall" bit, that's funny. I wish I knew the answer to the financial end of it, but I'm sure someone will come up with a way to reward the artist and content provider. In the meantime, maybe we can look at it this way: "The wall is in the mail."