The Guardian's Ewan Morrison did an indepth article which makes slightly grim reading for all involved in the e-selfpublishing movement.
It can be read here... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/30/self-e-publishing-bubble-ewan-morrison
All the while I was very lucky to give a counter argument on BBC Radio Ulster a day later with Ewan which is basically me just talking about my love for writing essentially...
It can be listened to here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b65jm
tell me something i didnt already know, and i'll mail you a cookie.
Some turtles can breathe through their asses*.
*Technically, it's a cloaca.
i was referring to the OPm bryan. and of course he's on the other side as this article because all his eggs are in the bubble.
For the most part he is right, anything new will attract a ton of peole, and you'll see a lot of them leave; both authors and publishers. However I think that will be more the smaller sites/readers with a few of the big ones like Kindle, iBooks, Nook, maybe Kobo, and maybe Sony eReader living through it.
Also he has a fairly black/white view of success. Of couse the vast majority will never come close to the sales of the people he named BUT if someone is happy with say $30,000.00 a year which would be about 49 downloads a day, which depending on the number of book is HARD but way easier then publishing a million books.
Ewan Morrison thinks Applebee's is a good place to take a date.
"Ewan Morrison thinks Applebee's is a good place to take a date. "
I drove by Applebee's last night and the parking lot was packed out. It amazed me that there were apparently a lot of people who didn't know what Applebee's was.
Ewan Morrison's from Glasgow. From his book 'Swung' I think nearly every place he visits could be a good place to date.
What's wrong with Applebees???
"don't you know almost all the food at applebees is microwaved?" - some chick on a friend's facebook page a couple months ago.
i think she used to work there.
"You haven't lived until you've fucked an Applebee's waitress."
-Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney so did not say that LOL
Not on record, he didn't.
Maybe I don't understand the arguement, but by "Bubble bursting" are they saying eBooks are going away?
That seems ridiculous. Printed books aren't going anywhere, but pretty soon they're going to be relegated to something akin to Albums vs CDs or MP3s.
If anything the "bubble" is just starting to inflate. It's going to be a madhouse as soon as that first series of books comes along that falls in the Harry Potter/Twilight mold. Then there's going to be a whole thing about whether ebooks should be published in hard copy form, and there's going to be a bunch of hipster stuff over which edition is the most "real."
Can you imagine if we had a Mormon President? Does that mean we would have to take that Joseph Smith thing seriously? Would South Park get cancelled? Would Christmas be outlawed? Would we have to answer the door to young boys in dress pants? Would polygamy be legalized?
I think the so-called elitist "serious writers of serious, serious fiction" just hate self-publishing because it demeans the concept of elitism. Is there some terrible self-published crap? Of course. Does that mean all of it sucks? no.
"Can you imagine if we had a Mormon President?"
I'm going to quote JFK, which probably seems strange, but I'm going to do it anyway, as a reflection of how I would like all politicians to act in regards to their religion.
"I'm not a Catholic president, I am a president who happens to be Catholic."
Actually, despite the fact that I put that in quotes, I'm paraphrasing because I don't want to look up the actual quote. You are warned.
I know, I know. I was just being a smartass.
Yet people associate the religion of a President with politics, it's silly. Like imagine having an atheist President, the majority of the nation would freak out because they are religious and wouldn't trust him because of it.
I think the so-called elitist "serious writers of serious, serious fiction" just hate self-publishing because it demeans the concept of elitism. Is there some terrible self-published crap? Of course. Does that mean all of it sucks? no.
This argument doesn't make any sense to me. There's more than enough crap from actual physical publishing houses. Unless they're trying to say that the ratio of crap to good is a lot farther apart for self-published works.
@parker - You could have stopped your post at the sixth word, most people just aren't big on logic.
Fuck your logic!
You ain't no Charlie Murphy.
Well, you ain't no Dwayne Johnson.
There was a bubble? When did that happen? Where was my cut?
Actullly Alien I'm a lot closer then you migh think, through no fault of my own.
So you make lots of bad movies?
That's what I got from it. Or maybe he can do the eyebrow thing?
He looks smelly too.
Our last names rhyme.
I blogged about this... but again I was pissed. Ended up comparing ebooks to titty bars: http://jonnygibbings.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/ebooks-the-death-of-print-and-titty-bars/
So you can't read an ebook near a church in Oklahoma?
And God said, "Thou shalt not have wi-fi!" And it was so.
Good point, robot. I never thought of it that way.
