Interesting New Yorker article on the state of publishing and the impact of the iPad, Amazon, and Google.
The article is long, but worth reading for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the realities of publishing and bookselling today.
Best quote: “Publishing exists in a continual state of forecasting its own demise; at one major house, there is a running joke that the second book published on the Gutenberg press was about the death of the publishing business.”
To paraphrase William Faulkner, I decline to accept the end of publishing. I believe the book will endure…because readers endure.