All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
From Donald E. Westlake
I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.
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