More of the same. . .

Earlier this week, the Publishers Advertising and Marketing Association held its annual spring luncheon, where special guest Jon Karp of Twelve offered his perspective on what it will take to survive the "post-apocalyptic" publishing scene. "Publishers have got to control themselves," Karp warned the audience. "We're not unlike the banks that sprung up... offering credit cards and loans to everyone who walked in the door. There are too many books, and too many of them are derivative of each other." Instead of Gresham's Law, he joked, book publishers seem to operate under Grisham's Law, or the idea that any hit book should be imitated as soon and as often as possible.

From GalleyCat again. I'm sick of new books. I'm quite sure we could very well with the books we have. A moratorium on new books!

Seriously.

Addendum:
Olga makes an excellent point! Books that should be blogs should not be books. Blogs should be blogs and books, books. They're different media and making one into another is obscene. It'd be like experiencing a movie by turning pages between frames. Not exactly, but also stupid. . .

Additional Addendum:
Also, Doctors this-and-that, you cheapen your undoubtedly cheap degrees when you put your name, Psy.D. on the cover of your bullshit books. See A RARE BREED OF LOVE.