Aasta alguse Time's ilmus artikkel viimase aja arengutest kirjastamistegevuses: Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature. Võimalused ise kirjastada, fänne ja nende toetust koguda, muudab kirjastustegevuse senist olemust. Artikli kokkuvõte kõlab:
"... None of this is good or bad; it just is. The books of the future may not meet all the conventional criteria for literary value that we have today, or any of them. But if that sounds alarming or tragic, go back and sample the righteous zeal with which people despised novels when they first arose. They thought novels were vulgar and immoral. And in a way they were, and that was what was great about them: they shocked and seduced people into new ways of thinking. These books will too. Somewhere out there is the self-publishing world's answer to Defoe, and he's probably selling books out of his trunk. But he won't be for long."
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