Patrick asked Patrick Kanouse:

How have you found the writing industry changing over the years with the increasing use of the internet and technology?

Patrick Kanouse Enormous changes over the years. Since the beginning of my publishing career as an employee of a publishing company, I've seen a lot! But what those changes meant, mostly, was a streamlining and efficiency injected into the process...mailing of manuscripts from the author to the publisher to the editor back to the publisher has all but disappeared. Now email. Changes along those lines. What's really changed and shaking up the industry, I think, is the coming of the ebook and children who learn first that a book is on a tablet or ereader or web browser. Writers are more free than ever to get their books into the marketplace without the need of specialists like compositors, digital formatters, and distributors. That's a long-winded way of saying that options for writers are greater than ever. That includes both positive and negative, but I'm by and large a fan of making artistic works easier for the artist to get to their potential audience.

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