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an article on publishing was talking about how some of the most dangerous countries in the world were not too long ago large markets for fiction - Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria - its gotten me wondering if the time for fiction is over - we create our world based on our fictions and our fictions are damned negative (i.e., Endtime series)...sorta along the lines of the Situationists, eventually society gets so boring the only thing to do is to destroy it...
while there are more books than ever, most people read less than ever.
I got an sad letter from Dennis McMillan recently, he does small editions of people like Charles Willeford, Kent Harrington, Bob Truluck etc, and has been able to support his indie publishing by selling to libraries (I love his books but I can only drop $40 rarely) but he's finding his library sales are almost gone because there is no money for books, its all going to the occupation in Iraq.
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