Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
From the monthly archives: January 2010
There is, thank god, a community of people in publishing who do not have their heads up their asses, and they are becoming increasingly vocal and creating organizations that do new things.
Instead of trying to create a demand in good, interesting books that people want to read, they’re hoping some overly slick device will create that interest for them.
“The combination of hive mind and advertising has resulted in a new kind of social contract. The basic idea of this contract is that authors, journalists, musicians, and artists are encouraged to treat the fruits of their intellects and imaginations as fragments to be given without pay to the hive mind. Reciprocity takes the form [...]
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