Paul Carr: A Modest Proposal For Authors Who Abandon Their Publishers — Give Me A Break

I actually don't agree with anything Carr says here, as he is basically knocking the indie movement. But he does it so engagingly. TechCrunch: "If I were a commissioning editor in a major publishing house, I’d be feeling a little unloved right now. Like the wife of a guy who runs over his neighbour’s cat: why does everyone hate me? What did I do? Maybe hate is too strong a word: hate is when you hope that someone will burst into flames and die. The current feeling towards publishers isn’t quite that: no one wants them to combust – it’s just that, well, they wouldn’t urinate on them if it happened. ..."