If you are still applying words like “sedate” or “genteel” to publishing, you have not been paying attention. The air is now full of stories about self-publishing, social media marketing, bookseller market share, ebooks, the demise of many brick and mortar bookstores, governmental prosecutions of publishers for alleged price fixing, and other esoterica. All these new developments foreshadow big changes in publishing practices. How does one autograph an ebook? Will the term “self-publishing” continue to carry the distinctively unpleasant aroma of the vanity press?
These changes and speculations are of particular interest to me, because I am short story writer ...
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