But those days, in the publishing world, are gone. There isn't any library market to sustain a young writer. And the friendly old publisher, puffing his pipe, who understood that these things take time, has been replaced by a thrusting young somebody who is under pressure from his multinational conglomerate to come up with a big hit now. And preferably sooner.
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I've often written here about these changes in the publishing industry. Slowly even the mainstream is coming around to realize the value of POD and other new publishing alternatives. The step I would like to see is mainstream publishing opening up POD divisions of literary and other non-mainstream books, which in fact has slowly begun with some academic presses.
Although there is more shit available today than ever before, I also think there is more good stuff available at the same time. It's become a very big literary world, far larger than the traditional institutions can handle. Serious writers have a better chance at finding readers on the net, on the one hand, but a much harder time finding a publisher who will nurture and pay them at the same time. I hope, in fact, the review can become a champion of some of the better POD literary novels.
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