Blogs are the future?
Today I was pondering publishing and the explosion of online downloads of movies, books and other things. One of my classes from last semester was about local-literature, IE Chronicles and reports about what’s going on in our own backyard. One of the scholars commented how blogging has allowed new voices to be heard without the standard medium of Editor-Agent-Publisher and suchlike. Local information, poetry and other very personal writing is being opened up to an online and world wide medium, for free of course. So it starts to make you wonder if blog-novels are going to be more widespread in the future. Will people start seeking the free entertainment on the web instead of purchasing through a book store? Will the reading public trust unedited authors, or do we prefer to read what has survived the harrowing process of publication.
Anyway… just some musing. After all newspapers used to do well with serial novels, so why not the blogs?
~Kristen
