Do Big Profit-Driven Publishers Produce a Positive Predicament?

13/05/2025 42 min
Do Big Profit-Driven Publishers Produce a Positive Predicament?

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Even our AI assistant had trouble titling this one! But in this second episode, Mick and David picked up their discussion of the major factors disrupting modern publishing, hitting some highlights: Big mergers and their impact on book acquisitionsHow authors (and small publishers) can deal with truncated selling cycles Why publishing has become so much more dependent on author publicityand How personal stories (memoirs & author-centered nonfiction) are making a comebackWe close out with some hope that cultural conversations can take center stage in small grassroots publishing again, as the shifting landscape grows ever more diverse...come along!Publishing Disrupted is at PublishingDisrupted.substack.com Mick Silva is at MickSilvaEditing.substack.com David Morris is at dvdmorris.substack.com, LakeDriveBooks.com, and Hyponymous.com.