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Originally Posted by fugazied
Editors won't be going away anytime soon, they are an essential filter mechanism.
I think that's why a lot of indie works falter - they lack the quality assurance of a good editor going over the work before release. Some of the these editors are very smart people who have extensive literary knowledge.
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The filter mechanism has been clogged up with Dan Brown and Stephanie Meyer of late, they said they were going to get a guy in Thursday week to clean out the filter, but he didn't turn up
Joking aside, I don't think book publishing will be here in 20 years time from now, not in any significant way. I believe what happened to poetry in the public consciousness will also happen to the novel and the short story. They'll be reminders of a time that used to be, not of anything that could ever happen again. You're never going to see another 'beat' poetry movement. There's never going to be another 'Grapes of Wrath' or 'To Kill a Mockingbird' moment in fiction. Those moments will be reserved for video games and whatever follows the video game as a mass entertainment.
I don't say any of this lightly. I love fiction, I love writing and the way words fit together, but I'm a member of one of the last generations to enjoy such a pastime. Our readers now are a stepping stone to something far more powerful and interactive. An infant technology that will mature over the next few years until it reaches critical mass. But it will be the few, not the many who read works of fiction on their 'readers'.