More on the future of publishing

          Just after I finished my last post Jane Fancher posted that she had run into Patty Briggs this weekend and mentioned that she was releasing a new book and posted a link to it.  In that post Mike Briggs, Patty’s husband who runs her website, linked to another post by Kristine Kathryn Roush about the very subject I had posted on earlier.  Her blog is usually focused on the business end.  She knows the publishing industry from the inside and from the writer’s perspective and she is in the middle of a series of articles trying to define where the industry is heading and what it means to writers.  I am linking all the posts below that she has already published as of today.  They are lengthy and very well researched and very informative.

http://kriswrites.com/2010/10/21/the-business-rusch-changing-times-overview/

http://kriswrites.com/2010/10/28/the-business-rusch-understanding-publishing-changing-times-part-2/

http://kriswrites.com/2010/11/04/the-business-rusch-challenges-for-big-publishing-changing-times-part-three/

http://kriswrites.com/2010/11/10/the-business-rusch-how-e-books-will-save-big-publishing-changing-times-part-four/

http://kriswrites.com/2010/11/17/the-business-rusch-the-nimble-presses-changing-times-continued/

http://kriswrites.com/2010/11/25/the-business-rusch-bookstores-changing-times-part-six/

http://kriswrites.com/2010/12/01/the-business-rusch-writers-the-overview-changing-times-part-seven/

http://kriswrites.com/2010/12/08/the-business-rusch-bestselling-writers-changing-times-part-eight/

Here is just one snippet from her outstanding blog:


     "Enter electronic publishing—which is, as the bloggers say, a game-changer.  But it’s not a game-changer the way that the bloggers believe it is.  Electronic publishing will enable Big Publishing to change its business model.  In other words, electronic publishing won’t cause the demise of Big Publishing.  Electronic publishing will save it."