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Johannes Gutenberg would beg to differ. A publisher is not a requirement for a book any more than a record company is a requirement for a song.
by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Johannes Gutenberg would beg to differ. A publisher is not a requirement for a book any more than a record company is a requirement for a song.
- Samuel_Michon 15y agoPerubalsem it's not à requirement per se, but would you call 12 tracks recorded on an iPhone in someone's basement, without any post production, a professionally produced album? The same is true for books. Anyone can write some texts amounting to 300 pages of characters on pages. That doesn't make it a book, IMHO.
- jeffreymcmanus 15y agoThere are lots of professionally produced albums that are utter crap, just like there are lots of professionally produced books that are utter crap. To think that an intermediary is necessary to create a long-form work is demonstrably false cargo cult thinking. Books were printed for centuries before publishing companies came along.