Comments on: The exploding book, continued http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/08/21/the-exploding-book-continued/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Steve M. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2005/08/21/the-exploding-book-continued/#comment-2608 Steve M. Sun, 21 Aug 2005 20:26:13 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/08/21/the-exploding-book-continued/#comment-2608 Well, I know the publishing business, and he's probably giving this novel away because no one would publish it. It doesn't matter that he's been publishing for years. If it's fiction but it's not serious fiction or a thriller or a mystery or sci-fi or chick lit, if it's just light entertainment, there's no market anymore. I agree -- the print book is in some trouble. But this guy is trying to conceal his failure to produce what the market can still sell by insisting that he's seen the future; it's a line of bull, and he sold it to The New York Times, which swallows a lot of lines of bull. Well, I know the publishing business, and he’s probably giving this novel away because no one would publish it. It doesn’t matter that he’s been publishing for years. If it’s fiction but it’s not serious fiction or a thriller or a mystery or sci-fi or chick lit, if it’s just light entertainment, there’s no market anymore.

I agree — the print book is in some trouble. But this guy is trying to conceal his failure to produce what the market can still sell by insisting that he’s seen the future; it’s a line of bull, and he sold it to The New York Times, which swallows a lot of lines of bull.

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