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George Perkins commented on the blog post Self-Publishing via the Espresso Book Machine
Slogging is the right word, but the book business is changing so rapidly we can always hope for new ways to market.
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George Perkins wrote a new blog post: Self-Publishing via the Espresso Book Machine
Fragmentation of the book business has made it nearly impossible for writers to find publishers, unless, of course, they already have publishers who are willing to take chances on their new books. Publishers need to make money, and times are hard. As a result, conventional publication by major publishers has become nearly impossible for great [...]
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George Perkins wrote a new blog post: Chaos in the Book Business Mirrors the Chaos in the World
It is no secret to serious writers that much of what we used to consider the vibrant literary world we lived in has collapsed into an unhealthy morass. In his new book, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West, Anthony Grafton, [...]
1 year, 1 month ago · View
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George Perkins wrote a new blog post: The New Yorker's Strange Take on Creative Writing Programs
In The New Yorker’s current Summer Fiction issue (June 8 & 15, 2009), in an essay that is called “Can You Teach Creative Writing?” on the contents page and titled “Show or Tell: Should Creative Writing be Taught?,” on the page where it begins, the critic [...]
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George Perkins wrote a new blog post: The New Yorker's Strange Take on Creative Writing Programs 1 year, 2 months ago · View
In The New Yorker ’s current Summer Fiction issue (June 8 & 15, 2009), in an essay that is called “Can You Teach Creative Writing?” on the contents page and titled “Show or Tell: Should Creative Writing be Taught?,” on the page where it begins, the critic Louis Menand makes great claims for the general excellence of contemporary American [...] -
George Perkins wrote a new blog post: The Loss of a Cultural and Literary Center in the Book Business
You don’t need to be paying close attention to notice the fragmentation that characterizes much of America’s contemporary life. Your home town newspaper has ceased to print or will soon do so. This is happening to the ANN ARBOR NEWS (never a very good newspaper, but one that [...]
1 year, 4 months ago · View
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George Perkins wrote a new blog post: The Dream of an Instant Book
“I’m a reader, I have identified a book that I would like to read, and I want it now.”
Throughout most of the centuries that manuscripts have been set in type and bound into books, the sequence of thoughts expressed above would have framed an immense impossibility. Books were [...]1 year, 5 months ago · View
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George Perkins wrote a new blog post: Print on Demand, Self-Publishing, and Perceived Value in Australia and the United States
In March 2008, I delivered a lecture on Print on Demand publication to a creative writing class at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Adjusting for scale and for regional habits of reading and writing, much of what I said applies to the United States, England, and others [...]
1 year, 5 months ago · View
