Comments on: Legacy Publisher Buys Self-Publishing Firm http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/writing/2012/07/24/legacy/ The Arts: Writing will address PCV and RPCV questions on what to write, how to write, and how to get published with practical and clear (non-academic) prose. I will help you decide on how to tell your Peace Corps story, as well as, other tales that you would like to tell. The blog will also provide information on editors, agents, and what magazines and publishing houses might consider your writings. — John Coyne (1962–64) Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Lawrence F. Lihosit http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/writing/2012/07/24/legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Lawrence F. Lihosit Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:07:00 +0000 http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/writing/?p=865#comment-204 Nobody even remembers the names of the companies that once made and sold straight razors nor should we. Likewise, we do not mourn their passing. Soon, large commercial publishing firms will have that same obscurity. Good riddance! They earned it. Long live the king? Bullshit. Nobody even remembers the names of the companies that once made and sold straight razors nor should we. Likewise, we do not mourn their passing. Soon, large commercial publishing firms will have that same obscurity. Good riddance! They earned it. Long live the king? Bullshit.

]]> By: BHillenbrand http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/writing/2012/07/24/legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-203 BHillenbrand Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:55:56 +0000 http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/writing/?p=865#comment-203 Okay, legacy publishing. self-publishing, ebooks, data analytics. All very confusing and very volatile, but in the end, all this means that people are still writing books and publishing books. You don't spend $116 million for a non-viable operation. (Okay, sometimes you do, e.g. the Time Warner and AOL merger.) But the good news is that books still matter. And authors have opportunities to get books published and out into the market. And people buy them and read them, even (or especially) if it is on a tablet. I'm just glad I don't have to work my way through all this to get a book published. But authors still have options, if they are willing to work at it. A couple weeks ago, within the space of six days, I went to two book parties for friends whose books were published by legacy publishers and ordered more two books by friends on Amazon of books published by small, I guess, self-publishers. Books ain't going away. The only discouraging part was that I realized I had 1200 pages to read. So, please, everyone, pay attention: stay on trend. Okay, legacy publishing. self-publishing, ebooks, data analytics. All very confusing and very volatile, but in the end, all this means that people are still writing books and publishing books. You don’t spend $116 million for a non-viable operation. (Okay, sometimes you do, e.g. the Time Warner and AOL merger.) But the good news is that books still matter. And authors have opportunities to get books published and out into the market. And people buy them and read them, even (or especially) if it is on a tablet.

I’m just glad I don’t have to work my way through all this to get a book published. But authors still have options, if they are willing to work at it. A couple weeks ago, within the space of six days, I went to two book parties for friends whose books were published by legacy publishers and ordered more two books by friends on Amazon of books published by small, I guess, self-publishers. Books ain’t going away. The only discouraging part was that I realized I had 1200 pages to read.

So, please, everyone, pay attention: stay on trend.

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