Hi,
As a writer this blogger has been watching the publishing industry, a PREVIOUSLY highly successful business, WRITHING in the death throes of the technological revolution!!!!!!!!!!!
Five publishing houses attempted to stop Amazon and other tech.coms from discounting and giving away e-books in what a law suit claimed was "Agency pricing". The financial risks in a Government suit against five publishers and Apple became too great and most settled. Publisher Macmillan desired to continue the fight but found itself naked and in a position to be responsible for damages far exceeding their company's total worth. Macmillan caved as well.
So, Amazon, the technological giant of .com won hands down and the publishing companies were left licking their wounds. While protecting themselves, the publishing group could have benefitted authors and books as well, a role top publishers gave lip service to in the past. Unfortunately poor practice left them unsuccessful at defense.
These are the same PUBLISHING COMPANIES THAT ONLY A SHORT TIME AGO were DICTATING TO THE AUTHORS AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT THEY COULD WRITE IF THEY WANTED TO BE PUBLISHED AND TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT THEIR READING HABITS AND THE COST OF BOOKS .
The old saying WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND is totally apropos here. The talented authors who have bitten the dust BECAUSE OF THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRIES BOTTOM LINE COST APPROACH TO PUBLISHING WRITERS could fill a LARGE TOMB. Their uncaring REJECTION SLIPS DECLARING WORKS UNFIT (NO REASON NEEDED) destroyed many sensitive would-be authors (and what aspiring new author has not received one or more of those gems). PUBLISHERS BECAME FAT AND RICH ON THE BACKS OF THE TALENTED AUTHORS who often received little compensation UNTIL THEY 'MADE' IT !!!!!!!!!!!!! OR BETTER PUT-MADE THE PUBLISHER RICH!!!!!!!!!
THIS BLOGGER WONDERS if those REJECTED TALENTED WRITERS PUT AMAZON.COM TOGETHER INSTEAD OF WRITING??????????????????
HOWEVER THE DEMISE OF PUBLISHERS ALSO PREDICTS THE DEATH OF BOOKS AS WE KNOW THEM. MORE AND MORE LIBRARIES HAVE BECOME LABS FOR COMPUTERS and soon those large stores of books will be inappropriate when storing them on a computer TAKES SO MUCH LESS SPACE, CARE AND ROOM.
THE MOST IRONIC PART OF ALL OF THIS IS THAT THOSE TALENTED WRITERS ARE STILL GETTING THE "CRUMMY" END OF THE STICK BECAUSE GIVING AWAY E-BOOKS OR SELLING THEM FOR NOTHING DOES NOT A LIVING MAKE FOR WRITERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Writing manuals for software programs will still be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENTS have been suggested for our Government in Washington but there seems to be a need for ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT ALL OVER THE NATION AND WORLD. MOST FOLKS HAVE NOT YET COME TO GRIPS (THIS BLOGGER INCLUDED) WITH THE REALITIES OF TECHNOLOGY AND HOW MUCH IT WILL DESTROY AS IT CHANGES THE FACE OF OUR ECONOMY, OUR POLITICS, OUR LIVES, AND OUR BELOVED INSTITUTIONS.
If one really contemplates the results of a REVOLUTION, it is the act of WATCHING ONE SET OF VALUES DIE AND SEEING ANOTHER SET OF VALUES BORN AND THE GRIEF THAT SUCH A CHANGE CAN BRING.
NOT TO BE TOO LENIENT WITH WASHINGTON POLITICS OR LEADERS BUT IT IS IN THIS CHANGING, VOLATILE ATMOSPHERE THAT THEY MUST CHOOSE WHAT IS BEST FOR THE NATION. A recent article cited forward looking Congressmen (both Republicans and Democrats) seeking to establish PROBLEM SOLVERS in their august body. THIS BLOGGER HOPES THAT THIS GROUP RECOGNIZES THAT THE 'UNDERLYING" PROBLEMS COME FROM THE IMMENSE CHANGES CAUSED BY TECHNOLOGY AND AFFECTING ALL AMERICAN'S LIVES AND THE LIVES OF THE REST OF THE WORLD.
CHANGE IS HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! DEATH IS ABHORRENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOSING WHAT WE LOVE IS FRIGHTENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND SEEKING THE WISE AND PRUDENT IN THOSE EXTREMES TOTALLY WITHOUT PRECEDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT IT MUST BE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!! WE MUST GO ON TO MAKE LIFE GOOD AGAIN UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT EXIST.
Technology has been both a blessing and a destructive force but then ALL GREAT MANIFESTATIONS OF LIFE HAVE BEEN LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS WHAT WE MAKE OF IT, LEARN FROM IT, AND THE GOOD WE DO WITH IT THAT WILL MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS BLOGGER HAS SHOWN LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR THE 'DONDER HEADS' IN WASHINGTON, PAST AND PRESENT, BUT WE SHOULD RECOGNISE THAT THEY HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH THE KIND OF REVOLUTION NOT SEEN SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL AGE SWEPT ASIDE EVERYTHING THAT DID NOT FIT THAT NEW ERA.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's what happened to the beloved horse and buggy, the street sweepers, the lamp lighters, the corner grocery, the small farm, the cosy community, as well as THE OUTHOUSE. HEY LOTS OF BAD WENT WITH THE GOOD, dirt roads, lack of interstates (good and bad), hovels for homes, lack of communication across miles. MANY MANY MORE GOOD AND BAD adjustments that are only MEMORIES NOW.
THINK ABOUT THAT. WHAT ARE YOUR ANSWERS TO THE CURRENT PROBLEMS????? ANY BETTER ANSWERS THAN OUR CURRENT LEADERS ??????????? IF SO - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
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