Book Chains Will Go The Way Of Circuit City

Nobody is certain where the publication diligence is headed , but formerSoft Skull PresspublisherRichard Nashhas some grim ( yet strangely hopeful ) idea . He ascertain a future where bookstores exit , newspaper publisher go Hollywood , and book - committal to writing explodes .

Nash spent almost a decennary running indie Soft Skull Press , which release some of the smartest , angry , and weirdest novel around – including work by Nick Mamatas , Dennis Cooper , Lydia Millet , io9 ’s own Charlie Jane Anders , and a lot of mind - bodge science fabrication . Now Nash is go on publishing projects that he conceive will live into 2020 .

Writes Nash , over at GalleyCat :

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Most predictions for 2020 base on models derived from controlling the supply side , that is , from the monopoly on the means of producing and circulate books , will be wrong . By which I think , the supply range of mountains book publication and retail model is end . The book retail chains will go away , just like Circuit City , Sharper Image , Tower Records disappeared . And the corporate publishers will likely all but disappear just as Atari , Digital , Wang vanish though the backlists will be spin around off to private fairness companies attend for semi - predictable IP - based cash flow rate , and a mates of front list put out enterprises will likely be operating trying to emulate the Hollywood blockbuster model with just about enough success to be able to stick in business .

But Nash stay promising about writing , and specially new writing . He imagine “ prospicient - form text - only story will continue to fly high as it has since caveman gathered around the fire , ” and that “ in 2020 the disaffected twentysomethings of the burgeoning midway class of India , China , Brazil , Indonesia will be producing novel faster than any of us can possibly imagine . ”

viaGalleycat

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