Final Project

So from the very start of this class I've been interested in the change in the publishing industry that is taking place all around us. I'm worried about what it will mean for writers like me. If I ever publish a book, will I not be able to hold it in my hands? sign it for people at some mall in New Jersey? It seems weird, I know, but I'm actually worried about these things. Even from a readers perspective, I'm interested. Will I have to curl up with a laptop or, at best, a Kindal if I want to read? I don't know if I can handle that, honestly. I want to have a dog eared copy of my favorite book. And I want to have another, perfect copy of that same book. I may be a weird person but America is full of weird people, and I don't think I'm the only person that feels this way. Now a whole nother problem to get into is publishing itself, and how hard it will be to get published in the future. Will the advancement of technology make it nearly impossible to get published? Will it make it so easy that everyone can get published? Will anyone care? Or maybe it will stay exactly the same, just in a new medium. Regardless of what happens in the future, this is a subject I am very interested in. I want to expand upon it and do some research. The SciFi writer Michael A. Stackpole has a podcast on the subject called the Secrets, about publishing industry and the best tips and tools to use in order to get new writers published. It's quite a good podcast, even if he rarely if ever updates, and he talks about these problems a lot. It is really what got me interested in all this in the first place.