Comments on: Dear Suzanne: 7 Things Writers Need to Know Today http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/02/dear-suzanne-7-things-writers-need-to-know-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dear-suzanne-7-things-writers-need-to-know-today Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Self-Publishers Start Here: The Indie Publishing Life — The Book Designer http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/02/dear-suzanne-7-things-writers-need-to-know-today/#comment-5686 Self-Publishers Start Here: The Indie Publishing Life — The Book Designer Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:04:05 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=4177#comment-5686 [...] Dear Suzanne: 7 Things Writers Need to Know Today [...] [...] Dear Suzanne: 7 Things Writers Need to Know Today [...]

]]> By: Joel http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/02/dear-suzanne-7-things-writers-need-to-know-today/#comment-881 Joel Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:23:01 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=4177#comment-881 I think writers will always be there as long as human culture survives. Writers are the inheritors of all the hundreds of generations of storytellers who passed the myths and legends along until literacy developed. I'm less sanguine about the prospect for design in the e-book age. It still looks like a problem. Self-publishing looks like it will continue to grow, don't you think? Hard to get that genie back into the bottle. And the tools will become better, faster, cheaper and easier to use. I think writers will always be there as long as human culture survives. Writers are the inheritors of all the hundreds of generations of storytellers who passed the myths and legends along until literacy developed.

I’m less sanguine about the prospect for design in the e-book age. It still looks like a problem. Self-publishing looks like it will continue to grow, don’t you think? Hard to get that genie back into the bottle. And the tools will become better, faster, cheaper and easier to use.

]]> By: betty ming liu http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2010/02/dear-suzanne-7-things-writers-need-to-know-today/#comment-876 betty ming liu Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:50:49 +0000 http://www.thebookdesigner.com/?p=4177#comment-876 This post is such a good reminder! As a writer, it's so easy to overlook the big picture. But at least you make me feel like writers have a future in this changing world. What about self-publishers/designers like yourself? Where do you feel the e-books will leave you? This post is such a good reminder! As a writer, it’s so easy to overlook the big picture. But at least you make me feel like writers have a future in this changing world. What about self-publishers/designers like yourself? Where do you feel the e-books will leave you?

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