{"id":33154,"date":"2013-12-14T14:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=33154"},"modified":"2013-12-14T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T22:24:01","slug":"publishing-gatekeepers-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/publishing-gatekeepers-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"The Publishing Gatekeepers are Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have been hearing lots of complaints recently from traditional publishers, authors, and agents that some of the changes in the publishing world are ruining books forever. Their rants go something like this:<\/p>\n
Now that everybody can publish a book, there’s going to be so much garbage out there! And it’s all so cheap! How can I charge $24.99 for a book if someone else is selling theirs for $2.99?!! How can I make a living?! We must stop all the independent publishers! We must tell the independent authors that their books are no good unless they get published through traditional publishing methods! We must tell the wannabe authors their ideas are no good! We must force Google, Amazon, and Apple to pay us more money!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I say that the eBook revolution will do for book publishing what the Gutenberg press did for book printing. And the sooner we embrace it, the better off we’ll be.\u00a0There is publishing evolution going on, and those who fight it will become extinct.<\/p>\n
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The publishing\u00a0gatekeepers with their secret handshakes and lofty glares remind me of the black knight in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the video.<\/p>\n