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Originally Posted by petrucci
It is ironic that the actions taken by these publishers, which some claim were made to save the publishing industry, will likely cause great harm to it.
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Well, it depends on what you think the publishing industry is about.
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A Big Six CEO told me last week that the two core skills and competencies that publishers require are “editorial”, picking the books and developing them, and “marketing”, letting the interested public know the book is there. This CEO would be happy to outsource just about everything else. Starting where this executive wants to end up — with commercial properties in hand and an ability to tell an audience about them but with no overhead or organization to support — is essentially where Hollywood entities get the chance to begin.
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...from this Shatzkin report on industry wheeling and dealing:
http://www.idealog.com/blog/everybod...book-strategy/
The BPH's ideas of publishing are all about control and making deals, hence their reliance on backroom conspiracies like the Price Fix scam and the earlier Windowing" Club at the expense of the authors, their own staff, and even their shareholders. Deals and hype are core; everything else they'll ditch. Proofereaders, designers, formaters, artists, and (yes) even accountants.
Yet the apologists persist in holding them up as beacons of virtue.
Whatever...