Publishing has usually been a difficult company to promote successfully, which titles by which authors to promote, which genre, will it be fiction or non-fiction? Will they market? Will they make cash, both for the publisher and for the writer? So numerous questions which there is no definitive solution and so the publisher requires a chance with his cash and his time and resources and decides on which books to publish, promote and distribute to the bookshops. He may only distribute to bookshops in his personal country and if they do not market nicely sufficient, will not be seen by anyone else in the world.

What a reduction to humankind and their quest for much more knowledge to enhance their work, their lives.

The fount of civilisations knowledge were usually universities, libraries, and bookshops, and if publishers do not find it lucrative to publish certain titles at all, to distribute to university libraries, and bookshops, then civilisation is the poorer.

When I was youthful going via school the public library was a should to enhance my knowledge of the world about me, it stuffed the gaps in my science, geography and literature lessons, and gave me new insight. I frequently gazed in awe at the rows of shelving that contains all the worlds knowledge which had been written up by researchers, explorers, academics, and other people, and oftentimes, you would have seen me taking an armful of books home to study at bedtime, anything from how atoms work, to famous authors tales of pirate treasure or tales of Victorian London.

The youthful people of these days have all this technologies at hand, not only at school, but in the home as nicely, they are only a mouse click on absent to the fount of knowledge, but in digital form on the internet. Numerous college students believe that if a book is not on the internet it does not exist, and they would not waste time going about to the nearby bookshop on their Higher Road to enquire about it.

It behoves, therefore, all authors, publishers and booksellers, to at minimum place a synopsis of their books on the internet so at minimum letting peple know they exist, and where to acquire it in print or where to download it from. Numerous books are now downloadable, but they are printed only by technologies enlightened individuals, not the large publishers.

Even prints can be obtained from such e-books, the technologies has advanced that far. It needs the willingness of publishers and authors to include worth to this new fount of knowledge. The first great library was established in Alexandria, in historical Egypt by Ptolemy, but it was burnt down later on by invaders, and all manuscripts were lost. What lost knowledge we could have gained we do not know, for there was frequently only 1 duplicate created on papyrus scrolls and no other copies ever created. With the internet and the enormous computing capacity we have, there would be countless copies of e-books on-line for instant download, and therefore new knowledge, and works of great literature, require never be lost, for they are so effortlessly replicable and distributable to a possible audience of 3 billion people on this planet.

Contemporary man, and lady, now looks for info on the internet, they no longer go to bookshops searching for it, with the enormous capacity obtainable, all info should be on the internet such as all government info.

The reality that retail product sales of printed books have been falling off more than the last few years means that publishers, and authors, have acquired to get with the new technologies – we no longer use papyrus scrolls.

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