Putting this in my Diversity and Representation collection for reasons which will be clear if you read the article.
The writer is right. Publishing rejections are, at least in part, a mark of inefficiency in the system. If we were coming up with the publishing industry from scratch today, I suspect that what we’d have is one or more “marketplaces” where authors put up samples of their work and publishers or publications bid on them, rather than the other way around.
Originally shared by Lisa “LJ” Cohen
This is a very powerful indictment of the publishing industry. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/why-the-literary-world-shouldnt-romanticize-rejection/414229/
Of course, that wouldn’t solve the other problem this piece talks about, that the industry doesn’t want to give a voice to people with different perspectives.
Of course, that wouldn’t solve the other problem this piece talks about, that the industry doesn’t want to give a voice to people with different perspectives.