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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
RE/ Robert Stanek,
I don't know HOW he made it into the Sony store, but back before the self publishing revolution, he somehow managed to get a bundle plug right on the front page of the Sony bookstore. He called it "Star Wars with Elves" or some such nonsense.
Not knowing what the heck I was getting into, I took the bait and spent like 50 bucks on his "bundle." And I don't think Sony had excerpts at the time, so I pretty much bit it on the glowing cover copy about how it was being read in schools and this and that....
And then I read the first five pages and stabbed my eyes out with a fork.
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LOL - sorry for laughing but the set up brings the word - rueful - to mind.
The problem to a large extent lies in the fact that traditional publishing has been asleep at the wheel. Fact is that market size has tripled under their noses and they're not scaled up for it.
At the moment trad publishing is putting out about 300K books per year, and they do that slowly. They need to double that number or else lose serious market share. The factor that they are competing for is not dollars, it's time.
If I was a publisher (said to the tune of Fiddler on the roof), I'd be stealing people from the software industry. If I was in software I'd be stealing people from publishing - well hiring them anyway. With the layoffs going on no need to steal...