http://paidcontent.org/2012/11/20/harpercollins-simon-schuster-reportedly-in-preliminary-merger-talks/ The economics of digital content Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2012/11/20/harpercollins-simon-schuster-reportedly-in-preliminary-merger-talks/#comment-176046 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:31:15 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=220989#comment-176046 Why would this merger be the catalyst for that? It’s already true at all major publishing houses, and that’s why self-publishing has exploded and given readers, among many others, the 50 Shades of Grays of the world. Don’t be so dramatic (and frankly, falsely nostalgic: first-time authors getting discovered and made into “the rage” occurred about 1% of the time in the history of reading. That will continue to be true, through one channel of distribution or the as-legitimate-and-more-profitable other).

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/11/20/harpercollins-simon-schuster-reportedly-in-preliminary-merger-talks/#comment-175853 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:14:29 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=220989#comment-175853 Reblogged this on The Business Side of Books and commented:
Remember when a first time author would get discovered and their book would be all the rage? If this merger happens, you can kiss that good bye and say hello to a world where books are published by the Snooki’s of the world.

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