Can you benefit from historic changes in the writing business?ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
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July 13, 2010 It’s easy to draw parallels between changes in the writing business
today and changes brought about by Gutenberg’s printing press. Johannes
Gutenberg awakened Europe with his invention, capitalizing and
expanding on tools and techniques being used in other parts of the
world. As publishing became a formal industry in the centuries that
followed, market share opened for several reasons. For instance, more
people were able to learn to read. Talk to a group of writers today and
it’s likely you’ll hear sharply diverse opinions on whether writers
will benefit from the changes we’re experiencing, depending on what
sector of the industry they work in.
Newspapers are having a
hard time of things, so hard that the Federal Trade Commission recently
held a public workshop, ‘How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?’
But
even as some traditional outlets are challenged, others prosper. Google
and Facebook come to mind, and so do specialty magazines.
Many
independent writers, as opposed to writers under contract to large
publishers, are seeing fees decline or stay stagnant, however. And it’s
not uncommon to see startups fold after a few issues. So what’s a
writer to do? |
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