Long front page article in the WSJ today about e-Books and authors (Here). For anyone who reads this blog, this is a "no duh" article. It is all about the small advances that authors are seeing for print book publishing, the fewer and fewer numbers of first time authors being published and the expected future of large publishing houses as they contend with the e-book.
I still think that publishers should look at the e-book as a proving grounds for novels. Instead of asking for past publishing credentials, which can be quite thin for first time writers, agents should ask for e-book sales. If they see a moderate buzz in the e-book community they should jump in front of it and publish that sucker, market it both electronically and conventionally, and try to make a moderate buzz into a major buzz.
But the article is written as if the authors and agents that are interviewed are just now realizing that there industry is on the cusp of a major change. WAKE UP STODGY PUBLISHING DUDES! READ MY BLOG!
Sadly for our hero, the article makes no bones about saying that being a self-supporting author be a thing of the past. I'm making no plans to leave my day job. Thank goodness I like it.
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