As if anyone still working with print needed even more bad news — more than 24,000 of us canned in the past year alone — today brings the news that Kirkus Reviews, which reviews 500 books pre-publication, and Editor & Publisher, the industry bible of newspapering are being shut down. No word whether their digital counterparts will live, although it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t.
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I heard about this just this morning. Not a good sign.
I heard Dan Poynter speak a couple of weeks ago and he predicted this. Also said he thought Borders will file Chapter 11 at the end of this year.
Times are a'changin'. As much as I love the smell of print, I'm going to experiment with ebooks. I feel like I'm definitely betraying myself, my authors...I'll still put books out in print. People over 40 still read BOOKS, but this is a changing industry, and too many of the big publishers are failing because they just don't get it.
Becky
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