Thanks to Dana, The Book Marketing Maven, for pointing out an interesting recent article from Time called "Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature" by Lev Grossman.
The article explores the distressed publishing industry and how digital advances such as self-publishing are impacting it.
In it, it says: "A lot of headlines and blogs to the contrary, publishing isn't dying. But it is evolving, and so radically that we may hardly recognize it when it's done."
"It's true: saying you were a self-published author used to be like saying you were a self-taught brain surgeon. But over the past couple of years, vanity publishing has become practically respectable."
"Self-publishing has gone from being the last resort of the desperate and talentless to something more like out-of-town tryouts for theater or the farm system in baseball. It's the last ripple of the Web 2.0 vibe finally washing up on publishing's remote shores. After YouTube and Wikipedia, the idea of user-generated content just isn't that freaky anymore."
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