Reblogging because this is such a great piece of information.
“Self-publishers don’t have the power to kill the publishing industry. I don’t think anyone does. But we do have the power to change it. We already have – and paradoxically, this change isn’t a change at all. And instead of killing books, this change has helped resurrect them.
We aren’t the first to be accused of killing the industry. In 1939, Robert de Graff threatened to kill publishing, too. At the tail end of the Great Depression, when hardcovers regularly sold for between $2.50-$3.00, he started selling paperback Pocket Books for $0.25.”
Read more here. A short but interesting trip through publishing history, showing the parallels of today with the past.
Self-Publishers Aren’t Killing The Industry, They’re Saving It
