Re:The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries
by ghaff on Sunday April 09, 2023 @10:06AM
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At least for non-fiction, I wonder how long we'll continue to cling to the 250 page minimums that publishers clearly want. Pretty much every other type of non-fiction text (and often other media) I'm involved with has gone on a serious weight loss plan. I can't believe we'll just keep publishing multi-hundred page books on topics that often don't deserve it.
We may find out soon enough. Book consumption, book stores ... seem to be circling the drain. I'd love to be shown to be wrong though.
If the entire publishing industry too is in descent, I suspect they will only get more obnoxious trying to cling to their last profits. Of course we'll need Archive.org even more then and after.