All entries for Sunday 07 February 2010

Leo Schulz on the Future of the Book

Writing about web page http://newyouproject.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/guest-commentary-leo-schulz/

An interesting, personal take on some of the changes in the industry at the moment, and how a writer trying to get published responds to what he sees about it.

I was particularly interested in the subsection, "The Beginning of the Anti-Book", but it doesn't quite go where I'd have hoped. Maybe something I'll follow up in a later post. Meantime, descriptions of the Anti-Book of your dreams most welcome.

The greatest consumers of narrative (for the sake of convenience let’s please include in this term any type of long literary work with few graphical elements) are students, but they are a captive audience

So writers should all thank New Labour's campaign to put 50% of UK A-level students into Higher Education? It grows the industry! Hmm. I'm going to end up sounding horribly elitist if I think this through to where my logic's going. Best not.

George Ttoouli : 07 Feb 2010 09:00 |  Tags: Leo Schulz Publishing |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem