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Originally Posted by ficbot
But Pushka, this is exactly the point---if publishing as a business is really set up in such a way that it *can't* respond to changing trends in a timely manner............
My dad, who is in The Industry, has often chuckled and told me that publishing is the only modern business he can think of that is still being run on the finest business practices that the 17th century has to offer. Things need to change---for everyone's benefit.
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Surely you would also agree though, that this situation (for the print industry) is not simply responding to an issue in a timely manner, but rather, trying to respond to an explosion? Your father rightly points out the tradition of printing. And I have agreed, things need to change and
they are changing. But at this very moment, it is the author who is wearing all this orchestrated and damaging revolt, not the publisher!