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The Future of Publishing
by
Jane Friedman (Goodreads Author)
The Future of Publishing: Enigma Variations is a definitive and comprehensive view on how book publishing will evolve and transform. It analyzes the future of not only authors, but also agents, editors, publishers, bookstores, and reading/literacy in general. If you’ve been curious, fearful, or anxious—or just want to know the future ahead of everyone else (and who doesn’t...more
ebook, First, 39 pages
Published
April 1st 2011
by Beautiful Regret Books
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The publishing, writing, and reading worlds seem so full of anxiety lately. As ebooks become more successful (outselling paperbacks on Amazon last year), journalists, publishers, editors, bloggers, and other writers (or readers who write) are piping up about the future of publishing: are we going to lose our cherished books? Are ebooks going to completely take over?
Jane Friedman, in her 39-page delight "The Future of Publishing: Enigma Variations," offers 14 different possibilites for the future...more
Jane Friedman, in her 39-page delight "The Future of Publishing: Enigma Variations," offers 14 different possibilites for the future...more
Wikipedia is the real revolution in our time and age. Or not? What do you think?
A few days ago I finished reading @JaneFriedman' 'The Future Of Publishing: Enigma Variations'. It's an ebook that made me smile. Lovely to read. I became quickly aware that I'm very, very fond of Wikipedia. According to me it's the real revolution of our digital era.
Revolutions connected to books:
* 3,000 BC species 'homo sapiens' learned writing
* 800 BC Homer wrote down the stories of an oral tradition in a book
* 15...more
A few days ago I finished reading @JaneFriedman' 'The Future Of Publishing: Enigma Variations'. It's an ebook that made me smile. Lovely to read. I became quickly aware that I'm very, very fond of Wikipedia. According to me it's the real revolution of our digital era.
Revolutions connected to books:
* 3,000 BC species 'homo sapiens' learned writing
* 800 BC Homer wrote down the stories of an oral tradition in a book
* 15...more
May 16, 2011
Jane
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authors
Recommended to Jane by:
Christina Katz
A smart, thoughtful and laugh-out-loud funny imagination of where publishing may end up when the e- versus traditional publishing dust settles.
Each chapter is a different possible (well, in some parallel dimension anyway)resolution from the banning of e-books in respect for tradition to the banning of print books in preference for "what's next". My favorite involved a universe where all writers are self-published and the cream of the crop are picked by a mathematical formula, the Online Passive...more
Each chapter is a different possible (well, in some parallel dimension anyway)resolution from the banning of e-books in respect for tradition to the banning of print books in preference for "what's next". My favorite involved a universe where all writers are self-published and the cream of the crop are picked by a mathematical formula, the Online Passive...more
A fun surprise of a read, permeated with the innermost of insider information from the Realm of Media. Enjoy.
A must for any would be authors.
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Jane Friedman is the web editor for the Virginia Quarterly Review, where she oversees digital content strategy and online marketing/promotion. Before joining VQR, Jane was a full-time assistant professor of e-media at the University of Cincinnati and former publisher of Writer’s Digest.
She has spoken on writing, publishing, and the future of media at more than 200 events since 2001, including Sou...more
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