While self-publishing companies try to encourage authors to
relate to bookstores, more of the chains are failing to Internet competition
(as well as physical store competition from Amazon). Wisconsin based Book World has announced its
liquidation, as explained in a B Section story today in the New York Times by
David Streitfeld.
This continuing development could make it harder for some
kinds of self-publishing assist companies to make money. Despite charging authors, they actually need
to have some authors actually sell books with some kind of scale to remain sustainable.
Unpacking my books after downsizing and moving into a condo,
I’m struck by how short the half-life of non-fiction policy books really is. A
book on “marriage” written in the early of mid 2000’s is totally out of date
today.
Period fiction and fantasy and some genres (romance) may be
somewhat immune, but fiction authors who want to exploit current political controversies
(like the Middle East, radical Islam, Russia, North Korea, China, and of course
presidents) can find their setups dated quickly. The world is very different
know than it was a the start of 2016.
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