Large bookstores were once small bookstores who helped large publishers get their books to readers. When technology changed and made it easier and less costly to publish, along came small publishers. Large bookstores refused to acknowledge the change. Large publishers were fine with this. It limited the competition. Large bookstores weren't about to bite the hand that has fed them so long. But I'll bet they never expected that same hand to actually starve them to death and then come back looking for the scraps. Funny how that worked out. And I don't mean funny ha-ha either. :(
For those of you who say that technology ruined the publishing industry, you couldn't be more wrong. Technology has leveled the playing field and so to all those large bookstores who are collapsing under their unwillingness to embrace small and self published authors and to all large publishers who can't figure out which way to turn now, I have only this to say and you should just be glad you can't hear me sing it. . .
Welcome to the Jungle!
You can have anything you want but you better not take it from me.
For those of you who say that technology ruined the publishing industry, you couldn't be more wrong. Technology has leveled the playing field and so to all those large bookstores who are collapsing under their unwillingness to embrace small and self published authors and to all large publishers who can't figure out which way to turn now, I have only this to say and you should just be glad you can't hear me sing it. . .
Welcome to the Jungle!
You can have anything you want but you better not take it from me.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
ReplyDelete"It was Beauty that killed the Beast!"
Fray Wray from the movie "King Kong."
It was greedy damn large publishers that killed large bookstores but it wasn't like the large bookstores couldn't see it coming to stop it from happening. Nope. They dug their own grave. IMO!
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