Week 5 Readings

Just so this is clear (I just figured out how to fix it) the posts made under Art Is Words have been from me.
Now onto the reading.
After reading both articles about the collapse of the independent publishing world , I'm sort of freaked out. It's amazing how easy it is in this industry to lose money. Bankruptcy is a scary thing, and this article just proved how much it can affect things. I mean, all those books and publishers that were affected, that's crazy! Lucky for them they are hopefully going to be bailed out. I wonder what would happen if they weren't. This all just reminds me of how much small press publishing relies on other companies, like their distributors to make them money which they need not only to run their press but pay there authors. It seems like there are a lot of middle men involved. Myself, personally, I've never really been interested in publishing with a small press, and after reading this, it's sort of solidified my original opinion. It's scary. You never know whether you'll make it or not, or if you'll get the money you've earned or if the company with fall through. It's weird. The new system of them collecting weekly instead of every 90 days seems like a good plan. I can't imagine having to wait 90 days for something that important, but then again, if you get published in a big press, you're waiting even longer for royalties! the more and more and I think about it, publishing scares me. But its still what I want to do. It's what I've always wanted to do and the only thing I really want to do.
It's just so awful thinking of how many publications are going under and all because of money. Money controls everything in the world and I really hate that fact. It's ridiculous to think that a green piece of paper can have such an impact on everything that goes on. It's really unfortunate to me honest.
This all just reminds me of how you really have to want to be published to deal with all you have to to get where you want to be. It really is a gamble and nothing is certain, ever. It takes a certain type of person to be willing to put themselves through something like that. And I just happen to be one of those people.