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Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Art of the (Book) Deal

I'm shocked and horrified at the commercial rush-to-print (and -profit) from books written by fools and idiots by big, well-known publishing houses:

Sarah Palin got a book deal.
John Yoo got a book deal.
Jason Mattera will get a book deal.
The Coultergeist gets book deals.
The Maulkin gets book deals.

I have lost all respect for the publishing industry, save very few exceptions. I suppose it's better for us to see what they're thinking by reading their spew of hate and lies, but it's really hard to comprehend how well hate pays.

2 comments:

Global Patriot said...

Unfortunately, lots of people like controversy, and with a dash of hate thrown in they feel it's both satisfying and entertaining. A bit like the schoolyard bully that enjoys beating up on people, this type of literature sells, which is all the publishers are interested in.

Ann said...

The challenge in the era of the celeb trash book is to find high quality writing by unknown writers. You have to dig to find it, but I'm def. having fun discovering talented writers in literary journals.