Book Publishers: Happily Aloof and Disconnected
Kassia Krozser at Booksquare basically calls a spade-a-spade. Publishers are out of touch. And publishers’ choices breed alienation amongst readers. That ultimately puts the whole industry into a death spiral. Not exactly cheery new year reading but the kind of indignation I can get behind.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking you won’t be like the music industry. Too late. Already you’ve let Amazon force its vision of pricing on you. Already you’ve decided you know the market better than the market knows itself. Already you’ve let free become more desirable than paid. That is what the music business did. They created a business model that made paying for music the least-best option: from convenience to price to selection.
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