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Originally Posted by amgoforth
I do have sympathy for the SFWA guys. SF is by far the most popular genre on P2P of any kind. DRM is not the answer. I don't know what the answer is. I fear there might not be modern Toynbee's or Durants if a solution is not found.  |
As long as there are hungry minds and talented people, literature will be fine. Most writers don't have a problem with DRM or the lack of it, only publishers stuck in the 20th century do.
One of these days I read the following at Time magazine, in
an article about the future of publishing:
Daniel Suarez, a software consultant in Los Angeles, sent his techno-thriller Daemon to 48 literary agents. No go. So he self-published instead. Bit by bit, bloggers got behind Daemon. Eventually Penguin noticed and bought it and a sequel for a sum in the high six figures. "I really see a future in doing that," Suarez says, "where agencies would monitor the performance of self-published books, in a sort of Darwinian selection process, and see what bubbles to the surface. I think of it as crowd-sourcing the manuscript-submission process."
I have a feeling this is how the future will look like, writers will put their work straight on the Net and let word-of-mouth do the job. The cream will rise to the top.