This kind of feels like more of an interpolation to explain the current moment than it really seems to have meaningful predictions for the future. Would have liked it to be backed up by a bit more economic analysis and sources. Thanks for sharing.
Slowly rotting along with all the other leftovers of our extinct race?
“It’ll be even harder to launch debut fiction”???
I get what they’re trying to say, but they’re making this announcement literally ten years after amazon self-publishing cracked open the market to everybody with a typewriter and a dream.
It has literally never been easier to self-publish. People in the 80s paid for 1000-copy printing runs and sold their novels by mail order and out of trunks. And they’re saying it’s getting harder to launch debut fiction? Sure you’re not guaranteed an instant customer base but like, you were not guaranteed that before booktok and instagram, either. Feels like a weird point to start their list off with.
I do wonder if authors or books will be as cherished in the future as some of the classics are today.
Like will schools be discussing or studying a book with in 2020s, in 30+ years?
To me, the fascinating part of books tends to be the mind of the author and their ideas, would that transfer to bloggers or vloggers or some other medium instead?
Would a school in 100 years be studying tiktok philosophers rather than authors?
I hope its the end for books, at least the physical ones
Koobs! They’re just like the books of today, but read upside down and backwards. It takes some getting used to, but eventually you’ll barely notice the difference.
Private equity firms hitting the big publishers, high interest rates hitting the small presses. Bit hard to be optimistic.
2004* wants its article back
*year of the first Kindle