There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
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.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.
I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.