I've been writing a lot for other blogs the last few weeks, so I thought it might be an idea in these cases to act as a sort of aggregation site so people can have a read, but can do so on the actual site, and with any luck discover some amazing new sites as a result.
First off, I wrote a piece called "The Large Middle" for Words With Jam, a fantastic writers' magazine for which I write a column on social media and live reading. The piece argues that the real winners in the epublishing revolution are midlst authors.
Here's a sample:
"There are two reasons why literary midlisters were Kindle pioneers – they have a natural inclination to the new, and they of all groups they had the strongest disaffection with the old industry. So they were the first to head for the new frontier...
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Good article; I liked it and agreed with most of it (maybe those two facts are not unrelated..!) It's a very fluid situation at the moment, so I think prediction is hard. But the central argument, that certain books the big publishers wouldn't take on become 'profitable' if sell published nowadays is valid.
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