“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.” WholeFunnyForgetFocusEffectsCostDifficultyMediumsProducersThoughtfulPoolPublishingBlogsBloggingBloggers Author:Clay Shirky
“When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.” GirlBoysStruggleCollegeIndustryDifficultyEducatedPublishingPersuadingPublishing Industry Author:Toni Morrison
“Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.” MeanDoneJobsDifficultyPressesIncrediblesEvolveComplexityGoing AwayExpensesPublishingButtonsPublishCadre Author:Clay Shirky
“Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.” ThinkingMenEndsPaintingHeroFameDifficultyPossessionDuesGreat MenBuyingPublishingUnderwearBasementsHackingFortsUnawareness Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren
“Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.” ImportantBookMatterOffersDifficultyWorthyListsAdvertisingChainsPublishingPublishersBookstoresManuscripts Book:The Bestseller Source: The Bestseller
“There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.” MenWritingThreeLiteratureGamesPoorHonestKingsDifficultyTablesMereCriticsSensiblePublishingPacksPublishHonest ManAuthorshipKnavesBooksellers Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.” MenWritingThreeLiteratureHonestDifficultySensiblePublishingPublishHonest ManAuthorshipSuccessful Writing Author:Charles Caleb Colton