Some thing has changed…says Grossman
Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity
When Genova had reached the end of her unsuccessful search, she told the last literary agent who rejected her, “I’ve had enough of this. I’m going to go self-publish it.”
“Put these pieces together, and the picture begins to resolve itself: more books, written and read by more people, often for little or no money, circulating in a wild diversity of forms, both physical and electronic, far outside the charmed circle of New York City’s entrenched publishing culture. Old Publishing is stately, quality-controlled and relatively expensive. New Publishing is cheap, promiscuous and unconstrained by paper, money or institutional taste. “
see the whole article by Lev Grossman at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1873122-1,00.html
