ThomasLitchford

I certainly noticed a lack of excitement and energy in 2007 with regard to fiction. According to Los Angeles Times article, the trouble wasn’t limited to fiction.

The hard pill for publishing to swallow may have its origins in a parenthetical statistic from the article:

Roughly 200,000 titles were published this year.

Is the publishing industry’s attempt to not miss the next potential big book causing it to, um, miss the next potential big book? Have the big houses fallen into the ‘quantity, not quality’ tarpit?