The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything I publish is for my readers.
The goal is to become the central hub of publishing, where we have all the written material - user-generated and professional. We want to be the place where people can publish instantly to their audiences... and to get there, it's just about doing things step by step.
Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.