Some 85 participants at the rally sponsored overflow ASJA free Sunday 15th May at the Berkeley Public Library belongs to both sides (and probably also a skeptic), which may be two turns radical movement in the world of editing.
The topic was “E-Books, Apps and clouds. As writers to create the future of publishing” Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, predicted the end of the large publishers as we know it. Berrett-Koehler David Marshall countered by changes to survive, the traditional publishing to, and thrive in the future. And publishing consultant Peter Berens, after replacing Coker-Marshall, offered a third view, that finally the “big houses” can easily capture and dominate the e-book format.
It is time that the public decide what they read
Mark Coker began with the words “It is time that authors and publishers to freedom of expression rose!” And it was ironic that only a few blocks from his mother (and in utero) participation in the Free Speech Movement at its height in the 1960s. And now, finally, is classified E-books as a format No. 1 among all classes of trade, there is a revival of book publishing that companies like Smashwords and offers a free edition and platform distribution to ordinary people the power over, what should be said and printed.
“The” Big 6 made “the value of writers for the commercial value of books they have found the publication sent. They controlled the presses and places of mass distribution, but the myth as the arbiter of value gives way to a new reality that the brick and mortar bookstores in the neighborhood, which the burden of post-publication publicity Pass writers, their progress book machine while they sit still, almost every offer, they take 18 months to put these few books in print and accepted if the new book does not sell within the first week in bookstores it is removed for the sale or discontinued. “
“Writers have been exploited. It’s the public who decide what they should want to read. We offer an online, open platform for writers to unlock their potential. That creates more opportunities.”
Coker said that the answers to two questions lead to the collapse of the big publishers (although they will never disappear completely, they should not): » Read more: Will the Current E-Book Craze Topple Publishers As We Know Them?