There are those who will read this blog post and tut-tut behind their hands. Some will consider the views expressed here as neophyte, uninformed, someone who plainly doesn’t understand how things work in the publishing industry. We’ve always had the long tail, the convoluted, ritualistic, bureaucratic process by which an author’s books are brought to market. This is the way it’s done. We shouldn’t change it. But perhaps we should change it. Leigh Anne Williams…

The following is a position paper written by our own Public Relations and Marketing Director, Kelly Stephens, for a university course on Anthropology and Technology. The paper garnered a 95%, and we thought germane to the current discussion about the effect of the Internet on publishing. The paper is reproduced her with the permission of the author. Web 2.0 has changed accessibility standards, bringing information down into the hands of the proverbial academic pauper and raising…