/lit/ - Literature

people are starting to realize that the medium is highly limited; books are going electronic and therefore pirated + destroying the industry, etc

I've been saying it since kindle outsold print: the novel as we know it is fucked, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. people keep writing the same stale shit, the literary community, academia and hacks included, are a bunch of blowhards who make more than they're worth, the industry is just not sustainable

you may point to the "people are reading more now than ever" statistics, but people are doing *everything* more than ever. the advent of the internet has given people the option to do access resources and do things they would have otherwise done anyway, so even though literacy is increasing in shit world countries, american rates are up and all that, it's more like a cycle than a continuing trend. once/if garbage nations like zimbabwe reach an average quality of living like the west, they will move past the novel too

all it takes is more intellectuals to admit that they've outgrown the tradition, and their less secure emulators will follow suit

tl;dr the novel is a phase in the annals of human history, and it crumbling as we post in this thread, probably doomed to obscurity within our lifetimes as film and video games progress into higher art

>>1656111
D:
This is the thanks we get for staying loyal to the Monarchy?!

>>1589068
pretty much this

more accessible = more bullshitters

the publishing industry is entering what happened to the music industry with the advent of audio file pirating

while literary agents, publishers etc., may be capitalist shitheads blah blah blah they serve as a useful buffer to prevent the justin beiber wannabes from spamming stores with their createspace.com-stephenie-meyer-fanfic monstrosities.

the fact that this chick pretty much got rich off hawking her twilight regurgitation on a legit marketplace like the kindle store just makes it that much harder for published novelists to be taken seriously

I guess I'm going to have to start reading critics unless I want to trudge through piles of this bullshit