When You're Too Afraid of The Future To Embrace It . . .
The world has been changing, radically, since the mid-1800s.
The pace of radical change has been consistently increasing.
Publishing, along with writing and reading, are in the spin-cycle…
Back in late November, I published two posts that I felt could add some clarity to what's changing—Some Publishing Advice from Two Extremely Successful Authors and More on The Konrath/Eisler Conversation.
Those posts featured a conversation between Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath called, Be The Monkey.
As I'd said, this conversation "has nearly every issue a writer could consider when comparing the state of Traditional and Indie Publishing; and, Barry and Joe have deep experience in both realms."
It now appears the Hachette Book Group, an extremely large publishing firm, has had a "leaked" document escape their inner sanctum—a document that "explains" their "relevance".
Mr. Konrath contacted Mr. Eisler and they; well, let me quote Joe from his post, Eisler & Konrath Vs. Hachette:
"I was published by Hachette, and for the most part I enjoyed working with them. They're good people and dedicated professionals.
"But boy, their memo is a giant bowl of steaming fail. And they dropped the ball when it came to me, too. More on that below.
"So I called up my friend Barry Eisler and begged him to convince me to just let it go and not do a blog post about how silly the memo is.
"Instead, Barry read the memo and said, come on, we should just fisk this sucker together."
I heartily recommend reading their conversation, Be The Monkey, before reading their conversation about the Hachette document but, for sheer entertainment from watching two seasoned authors tear-apart the vacuous ramblings of a publisher too afraid to embrace the future, Joe's post is dynamite…
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