Comments on: The digital truths traditional publishers don’t want to hear 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/ A Lawyer's Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:24:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Alastair Mayer 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-102777 Sat, 04 May 2013 02:41:23 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-102777 My son the budding paleontologist would be offended at that. The dinosaurs died out through no fault of their own (okay, so they should have had a space program capable of deflecting asteroids). The same can’t be said for legacy publishers. ;-)

]]> By: Sarah Stegall 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101911 Wed, 01 May 2013 06:02:13 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101911 No, actually, I think “dinosaur” publishing is a better term. More accurate. I may start using it instead of “legacy”.

Thanks.

]]> By: Tasha Turner 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101896 Wed, 01 May 2013 03:22:17 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101896 I grabbed a few recently. Now I just have to find the time to read them. Too many books too little time.

]]> By: Passive Guy 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101786 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:31:43 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101786 Works better than “dinosaur” I think.

]]> By: Terrence O'Brien 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101775 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:52:26 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101775 Interesting article. Seems the word “legacy” is an effective response to folks who sneer about “self-publishing.”

]]> By: William Ockham 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101773 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:36:21 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101773 Another industry guy who got his feelings hurt by the term:

http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/legacy-industry.html

Also, he wants to nurture you.

]]> By: Elizabeth 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101754 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:11:48 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101754 Industry term! I love this exchange of comments to the Guardian article:

A: “You’re missing out marketing… the traditional model still offers that facility.”

B: “If you’re a bestselling author, yes. But if you’re anything from a first-timer to a midlist author the amount of marketing you get is bugger all – an industry term.”

Bugger all pretty much covers it!

]]> By: Howard Sherman 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101746 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:43:30 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101746 The article nails this perfectly — the future is here and the fat cats in publishing are scared. And with good reason.

]]> By: William Ockham 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101713 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:41:38 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101713 Here’s a response to the legacy publishing term that is mature and well-reasoned (even though I disagree with his reasoning):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/25/legacy-publishing-revolution-digital

]]> By: Josh 04/2013/the-digital-truths-traditional-publishers-dont-want-to-hear/#comment-101709 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:15:40 +0000 ?p=39708#comment-101709 I think Eisler or Konrath coined the phrase “legacy publishing”, if I remember right, because they didn’t like using the term “traditional publishing” because, well, it wasn’t “traditional” but a recent phenomena.

They argued that self-publishing was the “traditional” publishing. And I believe they made the computer analogy too, but they meant the term a little more derisively as in “obsolete”. One of them has a blog post on it some time ago, I think.

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