Oh no... Another industry the internet will destroy...
Apparently online book piracy will stop people writing, because Authors will not get paid. The Society of Authors cite what's happened to the music industry where the loss of revenue from CD sales has resulted in the end of pre-packaged and managed boy and girl bands. Less money for music executives at EMI and more for bands who can hold an audience in a live venue. In the 1970's tours promoted records. Now records promote tours. Live music is king.
I think this is a good thing, and is pretty far from the death of the music industry which Tracy Chevalier suggests resulted from widespread file sharing. There’s a lot of ‘wait and see what the technology brings’ but the trouble is if you wait and see too long then it’s gone. That’s what happened to the music industry.
I disagree, Tracy. Music is now being made by people whose first love is music. People who without a recording contract and publicity would probably be playing guitar in a pub in front of dozens rather than on stage in a stadium in front of thousands. The marketing men are losing control. This means more people with real talent, like Duffy, currently at the top of the Album charts despite being Welsh, and fewer manufactured non-entities like Girls Aloud. Please don't excoriate me for my lack of knowledge of the current music scene. My tastes ossified before I was born - I like 60's folk and 70's rock and I'm not up on modern popular beat combos.
Now the literati of the Society of Authors are fighting to defend the Advance/Royalty method of payment, but realise that it is a model doomed to fail, especially for cookbook authors. Timmy highlights one spectacularly stupid suggestion: the state paying authors. I don't think, however that people will stop buying books. People like books and a Library is part of every well fitted out home. Reference books: cookbooks, haynes manuals and encyclopedias will and have lost out to the internet, but that will not stop novelists and writers who may be able to use the internet to gain an audience before appealing to publishers. Just in time publication means that very short print runs are now possible, meaning publishers no longer risk unsold inventory. Amazon just takes a bit longer to deliver such titles. What is going to suffer is the mega-advance book deal. But as this affects half a dozen people globally, who gives a shit? It will be easier to get a book deal for people who want to write, less risky for publishers to give one, which means more choice for the reading public.
There is no point trying to force people to move away from books to propriatory hardware like the Kindle, because the Codex form book is one of mankind's perfect inventions. Like the Bicycle. People like the feel, weight and look of a book. The kindle may have have its uses, especially for commuters, but it will never replace a well stocked library.
So the society of Authors should be reminded that there is no problem yet concieved that politicians cannot make worse by legislation. And this is especially true of managing disruptive technological change. "Wait and see what the Technology brings" is exactly what you should do.
11 immoderate opinions:
As a writer I can quite honestly say this is a load of cobblers. Yet another industry where people are whingeing because of increased competition. These are the same oiks that sneer at print-on-demand printing and self-publishing.
Alas, some of their fellow writers, who have been published by "proper" publishing houses, are using p.o.d. publishing to expand their writing horizons.
I was always wondering when the publishing industry would start aping the major record companies.
If you want to see what idiocies the majors get up please read my piece for the ERC. Wonder when we will see a big publisher sueing their readers?
And congratulations on your book, Andrew!
Howcome prostitutes aren't coming out and complaining that the ubiquity of free porn on the internet is destroying their industry?
Nice little anti-Welsh comment in there. As conservatives we could do without giving lefties the opportunity to label us as prejudiced.
I'm not prejudiced but some of my best friends are Welsh.
Seriously. Are you saying that the Someone who has Anglo Scottish blood, with an Irish surname can't take the piss out of the "Irish who couldn't swim"?
You'll be telling me not to criticize the Welsh weather for fear of hurting their tourist industry next...
I won't excoriate your taste in music, but I make no promises as regards your air guitaring.
When Ken Follett starts sleeping rough, then that will be the time to worry about the impact of the interweb and "book piracy", not until.
These people really don't like having to fight to prove their value, do they! Record companies are desperate to maintain their grip on the industry through screwing us with grossly overpriced CDs and now publishing companies sense their chance.
Writing is a calling, not a job to be protected from technological advances in society. It's up to the writers to fit in with the world as it advances, and to grasp the new opportunities, not for the world to stand still so that they can continue scratching their quills on pieces of parchment.
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