As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
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Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.
I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.
We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.
When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.
The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring.
Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.
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.
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