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[james_davis_nicoll]

At least one Canadian author says she feels "cut adrift" after Raincoast Books, the West Coast company that brought the blockbuster Harry Potter series to Canadian readers, announced Monday its imminent departure from the publishing business.

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Comments

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Hm. It's the same reason why TimeWarner is selling off most of its magazines: there may be money in distribution, but there's not enough money in publishing to make it worth anyone's while.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Of course, if no one publishes then there won't be anything to distribute.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

And now you understand why Barnes & Noble is expanding into board games and DVDs. Besides, magazine and book publishing are rapidly reaching that event horizon where the only people bothering to read either are either existing writers wanting everyone else to buy their works or wannabe writers wanting to break in. In science fiction, I suspect we may have already reached that point.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Besides, magazine and book publishing are rapidly reaching that event horizon where the only people bothering to read either are either existing writers wanting everyone else to buy their works or wannabe writers wanting to break in.

What would you expect sales to do wrt time if that was the case? It seems to me that your model should predict stagnant or falling sales.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Ian Gould and I are working to help make sure that void doesn't start to exist in the first place. At least as far as comics are concerned...