Does The Publishing Industry Value Celebrity Over Craft
Are you famous? Here have a multi million pound book deal
In this episode we look at the reasons why the publishing industry favours the concept of celebrity. New authors have a hard enough job getting anyone in the industry to look at their work let alone print it and yet we see multi million pound book deals being offered to celebrities, the majority of whom don't even write their own books. Is this a contributing factor as to why people are leaving the industry? Does this also push authors into self publishing further impacting the traditionally published world?
In this episode we look at the reasons why the publishing industry favours the concept of celebrity. New authors have a hard enough job getting anyone in the industry to look at their work let alone print it and yet we see multi million pound book deals being offered to celebrities, the majority of whom don't even write their own books. Is this a contributing factor as to why people are leaving the industry? Does this also push authors into self publishing further impacting the traditionally published world?
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In this episode we look at the reasons why the publishing industry favours the concept of celebrity. New authors have a hard enough job getting anyone in the industry to look at their work let alone print it and yet we see multi million pound book deals being offered to celebrities, the majority of whom don't even write their own books. Is this a contributing factor as to why people are leaving the industry? Does this also push authors into self publishing further impacting the traditionally published world?
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