Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:27:14 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, "wsFA Official List" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Why In Fact Publishing Will Not Go Away Anytime Soon" Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Scalzi writes: "However, I also have a fair amount of DIY publishing knowledge here, and in my not uninformed opinion most writers are going to be happier with someone acting as their publishers. That publishing as an industry is changing is axiomatic * it*s always changing, because every era brings in new, era-specific issues. But one reason one does look to history is that the general concept of a publisher has been durable, and in my opinion, seems likely to continue so." Comment #116 at http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/03/why-in-fact-publishing-will-not-go-away-anytime-soon-a-deeply-slanted-play-in-three-acts/ or: http://tinyurl.com/ylsek4h mjw