Saturday, January 09, 2010

2020 Vision: Publishing Predictions for the Next Decade
Editorial by Richard Eoin Nash - Publishing Perspectives

Last month, when this online magazine asked me if I would write an editorial on predictions for 2010, I apologized and said, I just can't figure out what is likely to happen this year.

But, I suggested, I could write about ten years from now. Why is a ten year prediction easier than a one year prediction? Surely the less far into the future one must speculate, the less likely one could be wrong? Ordinarily yes, as with, say, the economy or the next gadget. But with trade publishing, the next year is effectively in the hands of the CEO's of the corporate publishers and the retailers of print and digital books.

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In 2020, Will We Be Reading Books on the Inside of Our Eyelids?
By Edward Nawotka

The year 2020 is not as far away as you think. In today's lead story Richard Eoin Nash offers a vision of publishing in the decade to come. He sees the end of big corporate publishing and chain booksellers and technological advances that act as a catalyst for creativity. Writers will be inspired to work in multiple formats and will be better paid for their effort. And all the talk about the "death of publishing" will come to an end.

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