Batting for a Broken System

There was a ridiculous article last week in the Wall Street Journal called "Cherish The Book Publishers – You'll Miss Them When They're Gone."

I was going to write a take-down of this, but Kris Rusch and Joe Konrath beat me to it. You should check out both their responses. Krus Rusch goes point-by-point, and Joe Konrath, in a post titled "The Tsunami of Crap", laughs at the ridiculousness of it all:

"Some people believe the ease of self-publishing means that millions of wannabe writers will...