NYPress.com - New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more » literary predictions http://nypress.com New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Thu, 23 May 2013 21:16:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Protagonist: Very Important Predictions for the Literary World in 2013 http://nypress.com/the-protagonist-very-important-predictions-for-the-literary-world-in-2013/ http://nypress.com/the-protagonist-very-important-predictions-for-the-literary-world-in-2013/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:58:05 +0000 Alissa Fleck http://nypress.com/?p=60186
  • Ebook sales will continue to spike now that Digital Book World has officially changed the spelling from “e-book” to “ebook.”
  • Self-publishing will be more of the norm and less about vanity as the proverbial literary pie continues to bloat. (Self-published books will even be seen on some major Top 10 lists.)
  • We’ll burn out on vampires and mainstream erotica. What will be next? The Protagonist’s extremely modest amount of money is on paranormal pornographic fanfic with a gritty Western bent in live-blogged-style 140 character units.
  • We hear Tao Lin’s doing something weird again, possibly with drugs.
  • As Penguin and Random House merge, we are sure to experience an omnipotent publishing house monopoly.
  • Amazon will continue to have all the money ever and be a jerk about it.
  • Let’s talk about libraries. What will become of them? Nobody wants to sell them their ebooks. This is, in part, because ebooks have a shelf life of … forever. The New York Public Library just finished a huge renovation—we hear it looks like a Barnes & Noble cafe.
  • James Franco is releasing a book of poems with Graywolf Press. Everyone everywhere is reserving judgment.
  • Graywolf Press will become entirely devoted to publishing “frank and illuminating” takes on celebrities, by celebrities.

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