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BESTSELLING AUTHOR SETH GODIN gives up on traditional book-publishing. I?m not sure I?m ready to go?

By Glenn Reynolds

BESTSELLING AUTHOR SETH GODIN gives up on traditional book-publishing. I’m not sure I’m ready to go that far — Army of Davids was pretty good to me — but I can see his point: “I like the people, but I can?t abide the long wait, the filters, the big push at launch, the nudging to get people to go to a store they don?t usually visit to buy something they don?t usually buy, to get them to pay for an idea in a form that?s hard to spread ? I really don?t think the process is worth the effort that it now takes to make it work. I can reach 10 or 50 times as many people electronically.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 02, 2010 (boomark / email).