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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Publishing is a lot like making sausages... the end product is tasty but the process is ugly and the primary source is getting butchered. 
Just as it is generally a good idea to know where our food comes from, it is a good idea to know what the processes that bring us our entertainment are like and to understand things like Hollywood accounting, crunch time at software developers, and self-dealing and routine collusion in publishing. |
Yeah, maybe. Food is different though. I don't compare books with that. Food can harm my health. Books are more like TV shows and movies and such. Entertainment. And again, perfectly honest, I don't really generally care too much about the how and all that. I just want to be entertained.
But because the wall has come down a bit, I do think about it a bit more. But when it really comes down to it, I just want to read good books. If they are published by Harlequin, Avon, Random House, Sourcebooks, or self published. I don't exclude based on how published. I am though admittingly more careful with self published than with a publisher. That just comes from my own personal experience.
But I do think in this generation, the walls are coming down more and the interaction of the producers of the entertainment and the consumers is more close that it has been in the past.
I do hope though that Harlequin can find its place in this new world and with this new owner. They have a place with readers. Like I said before, I grew up in Europe, in a very small village. I had access to Harlequin books at the little stores. Think of all the countries where print books are still the king. They can reach readers nobody else can, in their own language. I know that market is shrinking in North America, but there is still a lot of market reach left for now.