The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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.
Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.
The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.
Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.