Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.
And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening the screws, they feel more and more that they get to call the shots.
I don't chase publishers. Publishers chase me.