New paradigms of publishing – Why literature should be free

The secular vision of the artist or writer working hard at his job, and living alone and hungry in terms of compromise, is certainly a protracted affair, and it is also one that Most artists and writers so easily dismiss the opportunity. Unfortunately, most developing artists must bear at least a period of abject poverty they hone their craft and the struggle for recognition. The public, rather than trust the company brain support creative urges usually to make fun of those who have not yet achieved the notoriety, while providing rewards often ridicule those who are lucky enough to be underwritten by major publishing companies and the interests of promotion. The end (and loved) writer Kurt Vonnegut often reiterated the sentiment he considered himself incredibly lucky, because he knew personally at least a dozen writers have been equally talented, or perhaps more, than he was and got no recognition (not to mention any financial reward).

Without a doubt, certain amount of luck involved when a writer of a contract with a major publisher. Many aspire to such recognition (worthy or not), because what the artist does not want his work to be exposed to a wider audience? In this era of high budget promotion, mass media, and satisfaction immediate, it is easy to forget that such works as Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence and Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen has been the source of private publications for authors and their friends and their families. In fact, the list of self-published titles, and writers who acted as his own editor, is altogether more than one might expect:

Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, James Joyce's Ulysses
The Adventures of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
A The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
On the road from Madison County, James Waller
What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles
In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Elements of Style by William Jr. Strunk
When I am an old woman I shall wear Purple by Jenny Joseph

Some other authors and celebrities who are now are self-published their work:

Deepak Chopra Gertrude Stein
Zane Grey
Upton Sinclair
Sandburg
Pound
Twain
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Stephen Crane
George Bernard Shaw
Nin
Paine
Virginia Wolff
ee Cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
Kipling
Henry David Thoreau
Franklin
Whitman
Dumas

Although it is easy to see from this list of well known titles and authors estimated that the industry itself often overlooked books he would have embraced, it may be a single overriding for this neglect, and that reason is not ignorance or shortsightedness of writing, it is strictly financial.

Consider the fact that the book for the past several hundred years (more or less) the publication (and most other forms of art as well) is present the fee system, whereby publishers pay authors or producers as a percentage of revenue from the sale of the work published, the cost of production which is at the origin, and usually underwritten by the publisher. But this has not always been the system dominant in which writers and other artists were paid for their work. In the past, customers were financial customary artistic works, commissioning artists to create works specifically for a particular purpose. Most of the great art produced over the last millennium in Europe was produced under the patronage, and therefore it can be recognized that the fee system itself is, for all practical purposes, a relatively new and also the one who has emerged especially after the emergence of democratic and capitalist societies.

As a result of the charging system publishing, the artists have never been paid so little so well, while the rest of the field (if their efforts are noble or low) are sentenced to darkness, silence, poverty, and even contempt. For those lucky enough to sign a contract with a major publisher who is willing and able to fund a major campaign to boost sales of books, the rewards can be huge, offering writers who have recently been unknown and working hard in their attics (or in case of Stephen King, trailer) million literally overnight. Consider the chance (and luck) of authors like JK Rowling and Dan Brown.

This system (now grouped in a consortium if it is not a quasi-monopoly), which celebrates necessarily some and condemns others to relative obscurity, defends his predatory behavior by saying everyone that only the best writers and the best Literary manage to get through the screening system hierarchy (starting with the literary agents are in many cases, only a little more literary mind that sellers of used cars and ending with accountants – not publishers – which, ultimately, determine which titles Perhaps a chance for financial success, and therefore a publisher whose titles is finally publish and provide to the public as the best and most worthy of art literature of the time). But this system does not perform such a worthy goal, and it is now been completely corrupted by the profit motive and left the general public with offers that only pretend to aspire to a higher plane?

One of the main reasons that the current publishing system and distribution has evolved into a machine and heavy financial distended (often short-sighted and generally well-meaning) that rewards mediocrity often targeting the lowest common denominator, while ignoring, if not deliberately skirting, inspiration is his effort tough to maintain exclusivity. However, in agreement with the tendencies of modern capitalism-day, the publishing industry once fiercely independent was subject to the consolidation concentric what the normalization of editorial policies to comply with the marketing strategies of bean counters and PR men. Twenty years ago, there were about thirty publishers frontline in the U.S. today (my estimate) there is only one. The others were swallowed up – one by one – in the EI Consortium Bertlesman edition, where the objectives are global, and where the rules of the baseline.

In a system that methodically transforms art into a commodity – quality be damned if sales are alive – supporting entities quickly learn how to feed on the all-powerful giant devouring. Consider that Barnes & Noble bookstore once a corner of New York City, now operates a thousand shops selling nationally not only the best titles of the day Bertlesman sales, but a wide range of coffee drinks and later sold self-help with a large double latte free, while James Joyce's classic, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is now on sale in the shop corner the darker, or perhaps only available in the Cliff notes. On the Internet, Amazon.com stock every title ever printed on a printing press – or if they maintain – even if the price of a venerable little has been reduced almost to zero! Indeed, Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, have achieved negative value system in today's edition books and retail – two entities that are joined at the hip. And when the art itself is devalued in a widget sold on an infomercial late night, then society and culture have deteriorated, and we are all poorer for degradation, and perhaps all responsible, too.

Ensconced in system certainly is there a light at the end of the tunnel. Internet is now a writer a place to work. In addition, the Web allows people to promote virtually nothing until the cows come home. infinite space at low cost, the possibility of connections with the infinite, as the spirit and others interested in the world, the virtual retail locations and online meeting, synergies with media and technology at low prices combine to provide not only writers, artists, but in all disciplines, with a new place – one with endless possibilities, and accessible to all at a low cost if it is incidental. The field is wide open, and it is vast, and it is egalitarian. Place like YouTube and Second Life offers both new artists and those long ignored showcase their work and their talents. The potential audience is global, and it is also apparently eager for something more that offers all-too-often poor profiteers monolithic. The Internet is the place of the population, and the art has by its very nature, always been a local expression. Except now the concept of space has been expanded – exponentially! The prospect of a book be stored (among hundreds of thousands of other titles) in a B & N stores miles from Miami to Seattle and San Diego to Bangor is certainly pale figure compared with a potential worldwide audience of hundreds of millions internet (with Google as Chief Librarian). It's a new world in the history publishing, nothing less, and perhaps much more important than the invention of printing (which replaced the scroll decorated by hand) or use parchment (which replaced the stone tablet). Of course, those of the traditional publishing industry will do their best to deny the impact of Internet publishing, but try as they might, they will not be able to preserve the status quo, they will not be able to take in the future. Some recognize the inevitability of this transformation and trying to adapt. Others cling to the past even their sales figures (and influence) decrease. But if you're a veteran of publishing, or if you are a newcomer, the fact is that in Internet publishing the playing field is level, and nobody has a clear advantage, simply because it is well funded. In fact, money may be out of the picture entirely …

In a capitalist system where supply and demand determines always the availability and price, all can be paris time out publication on the Internet implies that the anchor must surely. Assuming that demand for the media at all levels of quality continues to grow – and there is no reason to think otherwise – and assuming that the conduct power – ie, Internet publishers in all artistic disciplines – continues to grow as well, a virtual price war (similar to what happened in the telecommunications industry) will result, eventually made all the media free to consumers. Imagine a little! But if art is free (and thus freed from the constraints of marketing and the bottom line of thought), then how is the artist or producer, which must be paid?

As the pendulum, it will be necessary for the charging system, as we know it today, to yield (to reluctantly in many cases, we can assume) a lot older – namely, the age-old system of patronage. Already TV public in the U.S. operate largely through the contributions of those who are willing to fund quality programs and high content. Several editors of the press continued to publish small print on the paper also operate in large part thanks to contributions from customers. This system which should be repeated because of the dispersion through a new medium. It is just conceivable that instead of buying a copy of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland in a neighborhood B & N or Borders store to read to your child, you can simply contribute to maintenance and access it online on your computer at home?

Books To open an online publisher of classic literature, novels contemporary non-fiction of high quality, and experimental writing and multimedia presentations, we believe that the answer to this proposal is obvious. Open Books publishes its titles online, and all titles are available for anyone to read free. In the publication of his books online, open efforts Books to publish books in a way that respects the environment, and to offer its publications to all peoples of the world, regardless of their location or economic status. To open books, we offer classic that could not otherwise be available, the authors showcase contemporary who might otherwise not be heard, and we expose the artists whose work might otherwise be too far from the ordinary commercial businesses investment risk. In Books open us to believe that the art of being released, the art must indeed be free.

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