Quite good, Arx-Han. Moral status meddling with economic success, literary editors as moral entrepreneurs. (Is there a longhouse factor to it?) Meanwhile technology increases competition for attention, and trains brains to shy away from the traditional reading experience. At the same time, technology makes decentralized reading easier and usually cheaper. Pull back a little, and the 20th century literary scene of the west seems like a market aberration. The centralized publishing houses used to carry a feeling of cultural high status, which served them well to perpetuate. But it didn't stop their market decline. Literary moralizing of the moment is showing itself as market failure. The decentralization of weird new global technology may surprisingly recall the old, innovative localized idiosyncratic forms. Books may naturally want to operate on the cultural market like any other market. If you don't mind me talking about myself briefly, I have written a couple of weird novels exploring the decline of the west, and I can't even get a publisher or agent to read it. Opportunity doesn't even rise to the level of gatekeeping against me. There is no market open for me, except eBooks (and related paper book publishing) make it available again. Well, we'll see.
I wish you success and good fortune in the (publishing) that is to come. I would suggest self publishing one of your works and investing in a good cover design, which need not be expensive.
That said, I'd like to see more new presses spring up to push out interesting and innovative work that doesn't fit these pre-existing molds.
Quite good, Arx-Han. Moral status meddling with economic success, literary editors as moral entrepreneurs. (Is there a longhouse factor to it?) Meanwhile technology increases competition for attention, and trains brains to shy away from the traditional reading experience. At the same time, technology makes decentralized reading easier and usually cheaper. Pull back a little, and the 20th century literary scene of the west seems like a market aberration. The centralized publishing houses used to carry a feeling of cultural high status, which served them well to perpetuate. But it didn't stop their market decline. Literary moralizing of the moment is showing itself as market failure. The decentralization of weird new global technology may surprisingly recall the old, innovative localized idiosyncratic forms. Books may naturally want to operate on the cultural market like any other market. If you don't mind me talking about myself briefly, I have written a couple of weird novels exploring the decline of the west, and I can't even get a publisher or agent to read it. Opportunity doesn't even rise to the level of gatekeeping against me. There is no market open for me, except eBooks (and related paper book publishing) make it available again. Well, we'll see.
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I wish you success and good fortune in the (publishing) that is to come. I would suggest self publishing one of your works and investing in a good cover design, which need not be expensive.
That said, I'd like to see more new presses spring up to push out interesting and innovative work that doesn't fit these pre-existing molds.