ANTONIO | 2006-05-06
Antonio comments on the growing New York City provincialism of publishing:
And it shows. Look in the window of any NYC bookstore and you see rows of books authored by Oprah, Maya Angelou, some Neocon scholar, and of course the latest interacial lesbian romance.
Hey, maybe that's why the busiest bookstore in New York is The Strand! Ten dusty miles of used books that people actually want to read. When people would rather buy your industry's 40 year old products than this year's model, it's time to admit the undertaker is at the door.
Comment by Antonio Fini
MY RESPONSE:
I saw a cartoon years ago, of all places, in the NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, that showed someone at a word processor saying something like "Uncle Bill is working on a book for X, John is doing a series of articles for Y, Jane is doing ... "
It was an inside joke on something everybody knew, that publishing was inbred and getting inbreder.
They were going to do a sequel to "Gone With the Wind" that millions were anxious for. Finally they put it in Ireland because they simply could not allow any of hte Poltical Correctness of the original book.
Oddly enough, a sequel that had nothing to do with the original book was not very popular.
So Antonio tells me that the biggest market is for books that are out-of-date.
Like GWTW.
What a murderously accurate observation!
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