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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Actually genre fiction is what's keeping publishers in business on the fiction side. Literary fiction is losing money, but genre makes enough to keep everyone happy.
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Really? If so, it does beg the question (even more)...
After all of this discussion, I find myself coming back to the "Castle" publishing mentality, the desire for publishers and successful authors to maintain the status quo as much as possible because they are already on the inside, and by extension they ignore the entreaties of those "peons" on the outside to keep them there. There seems to be no other good explanation for the industry's resistance to e-books.
There are a relatively few people "on the inside" who seem to be active proponents of e-books... and they have not largely demonstrated enough success (read: profit) with e-books to garner any respect from other insiders. So they seem to be looked upon by the insiders as either "visionaries" or "heretics," even though they are still respected for their ability to provide profit to the castle (so their indiscretions are politely overlooked).
When a castle dominates an area, the only way to change things from the outside is to storm it, or to cut it off from the outside. I don't see either of these solutions as beneficial in the short run, and I'm not sure about the long run.
But is there a way to affect change from the inside, even with outside help, when the majority of insiders are against it?
In other words, we're coming up with ideas, but how do we apply them?