After a recent run-in with purely commerce driven editorial decisions (an unfortunate and constantly looming threat in any freelance work), I was ranting about it to my brother-in-law Dan, who was kind enough to melt my mind with the existence of this project discussed in the New Yorker: book deals dictated by the masses. So long editors (or at least, hello diminished editorial vision)!
I'd be lying if I said it's not compelling from a sociological/egalitarian perspective, but it scares me to death. Thanks to Dan for the link and subsequent crippling fear of the future (to be fair, that was already well established).
Saturday, July 7, 2007
The Next Big Thing (or: The Case of The Headless Editor)
Labels:
Commerce made easy,
Mob mentality,
Publishing
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