tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896410.post6658608611924405609..comments2023-07-02T06:11:56.794-05:00Comments on Survival of the Book: So much to read!Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09277741178537732462noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896410.post-48938260814952699152008-09-17T04:22:00.000-05:002008-09-17T04:22:00.000-05:00Brian, it's true. The journalist at the (UK) Inde...Brian, it's true. The journalist at the (UK) Indepedent on Sunday kindly sent me an email setting out the kinds of questions she'd like to ask me. I took that email to a meeting with my MA creative writing group at UEA - 12 students, average age 24 - and they were genuinely, unanimously hostile to (and in some cases entirely ignorant of) digitalisation issues, e-book technology, online publishing, etc. They grew up on books; they want to be published in books. Possibly what makes them anomalous (if they actually are) is that they're on an elite course with a long history of producing the kinds of writers they read and identify with (eg McEwan, Ishiguro, Anne Enright) - if they were more interested in digital publishing etc maybe they'd have gone elsewhere. But principally, yes, you're right, while they're with us what they want, and what they get, is hands-on rigorous editing of words on pages. What they want afterwards is their name on the spine of a pile of paperbacks in a high-street bookshop. Digitalisation would be supplementary or secondary to that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32896410.post-74270780064246946152008-09-16T12:36:00.000-05:002008-09-16T12:36:00.000-05:00Hi. I'm so glad you're checking out our blog. Wo...Hi. I'm so glad you're checking out our blog. Would love to hear any of your (very honest) feedback about what we've got going on. As somone who's been in Corporate Publishing for 20 years....I have to say, HarperStudio is a lot of fun!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com