Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
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.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response.
Books are humanity in print.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
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