{"id":189,"date":"2009-02-01T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/02\/pay-no-attention-to-the-publis.html"},"modified":"2009-02-01T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:30:31","slug":"pay-no-attention-to-the-publis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/02\/pay-no-attention-to-the-publis.html","title":{"rendered":"Pay No Attention to the Publisher behind the Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan weighs in on that question.<\/a><\/p>\n

Traditional newspapers are dying, to be sure (although I think that some of them will have a future as non-profits).  Andrew thinks that traditional publishing (ink-on-dead-trees) is in a similar state.  Money quote:<\/p>\n

\n

My own view is that the publishing industry deserves to die in its
\ncurrent state. It never made economic sense to me; there are no real
\neditors of books any more; the distribution network is archaic; the
\ntechnology of publishing pathetic; and the rewards to authors largely
\nimpenetrable. I still have no idea what my occasional royalty
\nstatements mean: they are designed to be incomprehensible, to keep the
\nauthors in the dark, to maintain an Oz-like mystery where none is
\nrequired. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

BTW, I totally<\/i> agree with him on the incomprehensibility of royalty statements.  I get statements from four different publishers, and I can’t understand any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Sullivan weighs in on that question. 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