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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Hemingway was quoted as saying "Either you do something new, or you're trying to beat dead men at their own game." The curent publishers have reached the "beating dead men at their own game" stage, and apparently failing abjectly...
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Not badly put.
Or, to use my favorite "castle" analogy: The publishers have remained in the castle, idly discussing plans to shore up the walls as they start to crumble, but afraid or unwilling to actually get started. Now, the walls are falling completely down, and they are scrambling in a panic to enact plans that would have been so much easier to execute if they'd started earlier. And they'll soon find that many of the walls are too far gone to be repaired.
That means the castle will be forced into a major rebuild, or else be an unworkable shambles if it is jury-rigged back together. If the job is done properly, the new castle will barely be recognizable from the old. In the process, there will be a significant shuffling of those on the outside, and those on the inside.