On top of everything else, I got the news today that in addition to TMP and C&G having been vaporized last week, my well-loved Seal Press has just been severely cut: five of seven people lost their jobs, and this women’s imprint will publish only a third of the books they had been.
A sad day for feminist publishing, indeed.
…and, just to add to everything else, now in the shrinking world of publishing, major publishers will have permanent rights to an author’s work by using print-on-demand as a reason not to revert the rights to a work back to the author when a book becomes out-of-print:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05.....ref=slogin