Blogging to Reinvent Commercial Publishing Model

Never before has a venue shown so much potential for disturbing the status quo of such a long established methodology: write, propose, wait, propose, wait.., etc. The current centralized control of the publishing activity that is vested with the publishing industry is similar to that of recording industry where the Internet is proving to be more of a "disruptive technology" than at first believed by the installed players. Resulting to legal maneuvering to stop "peer-to-peer" transfers and the attempt to legislate "intended activity" to stop devices with the potential for copying only shows that the Internet is in the process of dislodging the current holders of the portal keys and throwing open the doors to any interested parties.

Blogs and the ePublishing that it will eventual spawn will attack the publishing houses at their very control element: the ability to distribute new works, but only after locking up the author for years to come. Blogs will change this as people will find the fiction from authors that otherwise the publishing houses would never give the time of day, let alone the chance to have the world peruse their work.

The world of artfully crafted fiction is beginning to change and those that are now in charge are finding their grasp loosening ever so slightly. But this is how any revolution begins: an idea that seems crazy to those with paradigm blinders on their eyes, ridicule and laugh while the new idea gains ground slowly and ever so perceptively. Remember when people laughed at Steven Jobs and Bill Gates -- ahem, IBM ;-)

Nanouk