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]]> By: Ilya Kralinsky http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/digital-book-world-from-conference-to-community/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Ilya Kralinsky Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:54:57 +0000 http://digitalbookworld.com/?p=904#comment-114 This article was fantastic ... a fantastic spin on how technology has just removed the slush pile from agents and publishers and put it in the hands of the confused public so they can wade through eight million books by teenage girls who write about bad boy vampires suddenly wanting to be good after falling in love with them, or work by thirty year old men who spent ten years in their parents' basement developing the language of the Wood Orcs for their pre-Medieval slash/kill/trek/slash/kill/trek/ throw-the-evil-ring-in-the-mountain-of-fire epic, all of which are different, "because ... because ... well, it just is." This explosion of technology, while at first encouraging to long-time, self-disciplined writers, has thus far proven just as turbulent an ocean of garbage as writers faced before the Internet opened communication, only now we can receive rejections harder and faster while inconsequential crap by non-writers speeds to press. Now that the iPad has negated the need for a book light, online publishing can implement some sort of standard that will filter out the garbage and bring sterling writing to the fore with the publicity they deserve. I get the distinct intuition, however, that this will remain a quick and easy venue for the daft. Sorry for the cynicism. It's been twenty years of honing, developing and trying. This article was fantastic … a fantastic spin on how technology has just removed the slush pile from agents and publishers and put it in the hands of the confused public so they can wade through eight million books by teenage girls who write about bad boy vampires suddenly wanting to be good after falling in love with them, or work by thirty year old men who spent ten years in their parents’ basement developing the language of the Wood Orcs for their pre-Medieval slash/kill/trek/slash/kill/trek/ throw-the-evil-ring-in-the-mountain-of-fire epic, all of which are different, “because … because … well, it just is.” This explosion of technology, while at first encouraging to long-time, self-disciplined writers, has thus far proven just as turbulent an ocean of garbage as writers faced before the Internet opened communication, only now we can receive rejections harder and faster while inconsequential crap by non-writers speeds to press. Now that the iPad has negated the need for a book light, online publishing can implement some sort of standard that will filter out the garbage and bring sterling writing to the fore with the publicity they deserve. I get the distinct intuition, however, that this will remain a quick and easy venue for the daft.

Sorry for the cynicism. It’s been twenty years of honing, developing and trying.

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