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I Want To Write (Weekly Finds for the Writer In the Making)

I want to write, for the writer, writer in the making, i love to write, i love writing

[These I Want To Write posts, inspired by my previous series called Writer’s Brain Dumps offer interesting news for the writer and reader in you.]

  • Here’s an article exploring how Amazon storefronts will change the Book Industry.
  • Here’s one way: even news about Amazon’s plans to open stores already seem to be altering things. Barnes & Noble already announced they won’t be stocking Amazon print books.
  • And it looks like Books-A-Million is following suit.
  • Canada’s 244 store chain, Indigo Books, is in for the book industry’s battle against the internet superhouse too. But will it matter?  Or are they like mosquitoes landing on a giant at this point?
  • Textbook stores will fare no better. If all textbooks were available, students would choose to use e-textbooks 47% of the time. But, ironically, e-text sales were down.
  • And then there’s librarians. Data suggests, unless things change fast, their days are numbered too. According to a new study released by Bowker, library information science resources pulled in  30% less revenue this past academic year than the one before it. To throw one more stone on the grave, librarians were cited as one of the most “declining” disciplines by the Book Industry Study Group’s higher education publishing event.
  • The book industry isn’t what it used to be, for sure. But of course, there are still people finding incredible success in new niches. Take the recent rise of the first-person novel (Twilight, Hunger Games, anyone?). But be warned, first-person narrators,  this writer says you should avoid first-person…except in one specific case.
  • Perplexed by industry news? Go back to an oldie, but goodie. Here’s a cool audio interview with Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Trufautt. Yes. That’s right. You can hear the voice of the man who wrote The Birds. Admit it. You’re expecting him to sound creepy, aren’t you?
  • “Only a few of us are willing to break our hearts by trading the beauty of imagination for the disappointment of words.”-Ann Patchett
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