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Price caps, efficiency payoffs, and infrastructure contract renegotiation in Latin America
AbstractTwenty years ago, as the United Kingdom was getting ready to launch the privatization of its public services, Professor Littlechild developed and operationalized the concept of price caps as a regulatory regime to control for residual monopoly conditions in those services. Ten years later, Latin American countries, as they embarked into their own infrastructure reforms, also adopted the price cap regulatory model. Relying on a large data base on the factors driving contract renegotiation in the region and a survey of the literature on efficiency gains, the authors assess the impact of this regulatory regime in Latin America. They show that while the expected efficiency gains were amply achieved, these gains were seldom passed on to the users. Instead they were shared by the government and the firms. Moreover, the adoption of price caps implied higher costs of capital and hence, tariffs, and brought down levels of investment.
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In response to my FOIA request, the U.S. Navy reveals "China's Grand Design" with just a few slight redactions..
As a Man-Made Famine Looms, Christmas Comes Early to South Sudan
My latest reporting from South Sudan takes you from a Christmas-in-July party at the U.S. Embassy in Juba to a dismal, muddy UN camp deep in the countryside outside Malakal. Already, 3.9 million South Sudanese are facing catastrophic food insecurity and 50,000 children may die of malnutrition by the end of the year. Right now, experts in Juba are crunching numbers to decide if and when famine can be declared. "Half the kids may already be dead by the time famine is actually declared," one UNICEF official told me.
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Cash, Weapons and Surveillance: the U.S. is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack
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U.S. Special Operations Forces are training hundreds of African commandos for elite counterterror units in Libya, Niger, Mauritania, and Mali (via U.S. Trains African Commandos to Fight Terrorism - NYTimes.com)
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What is Operation New Normal and why won't the U.S. military talk about it?
In my latest investigation of shadowy U.S. military missions in Africa, I try to figure out just that. The article begins:
"What is Operation New Normal? It's a question without an answer, a riddle the U.S. military refuses to solve. It's a secret operation in Africa that no one knows anything about. Except that someone does. His name is Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee Magee. He lives and breathes Operation New Normal. But he doesn't want to breath paint fumes or talk to me, so you can't know anything about it.
Confused? Stay with me.
"Whatever Operation New Normal may be pales in comparison to the real "new normal" for U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). The lower-cased variant is bold and muscular. It's an expeditionary force on a war footing. To the men involved, it's a story of growth and expansion, new battlefields, 'combat,' and 'war.' It's the culmination of years of construction, ingratiation, and interventions, the fruits of wide-eyed expansion and dismal policy failures, the backing of proxies to fight America's battles, while increasing U.S. personnel and firepower in and around the continent. It is, to quote an officer with AFRICOM, the blossoming of a 'war-fighting combatant command.' And unlike Operation New Normal, it's finally heading for a media outlet near you."
Read the entire article here: Nick Turse, How "Benghazi" Birthed the New Normal in Africa | TomDispatch
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When we speak of literature, we should not imagine that we are speaking of some stable and enduring Platonic entity. The history of literature has always been about its highly mutable institutions, whether bookstores, publishers, schools of criticism, or, for the last half century, the mass media. In other words, literature has always been about the struggle over who would have the social authority to determine what would count as literature. Early on, this authority seems to have been the possession of men who had the privilege of owning printing presses and bookstores. In our own time, the most compelling claim to this authority comes either from the capacious bosom of Oprah Winfrey and her bathetic book club, or from the arid speculations of those Hollow Men on a publisher's marketing staff.
Matters were not always thus. When John Murray published the works of Lord Byron in London in the early 19th century, he risked prosecution and jail if the work was found blasphemous or libelous by the powerful. Byron, notoriously, didn't help things, deliberately writing his poetry out along the razor's edge of public tolerance, just as he lived his life. In another example, Shelley wrote to his publisher, Thomas Hookham, regarding the appearance of his poem Queen Mab: "If you do not dread the arm of the law, or any exasperation of public opinion against yourself, I wish that it should be printed and published immediately." Hookham must have had such fears because he refused to publish the atheistic and revolutionary poem (Tory legislation against "blasphemous and seditious" literature was the order of the day). As a consequence, the first edition of the work was self-published in a run of a few hundred copies for distribution among friends. Even so, in 1817, the poem's radical politics and atheism were used against Shelley in his suit to gain the custody of his children; he lost the suit and never saw them afterwards. In England, still in reactionary posture after the French Revolution and Napoleon, poets and writers like Shelley, Byron, and Leigh Hunt found it safer to flee the country in order to write. They conducted their on-going dialogue with their native land through their brave, nerve-wracked, and sometimes imprisoned publishers.
At that time, there was little difference between a bookstore and a publisher; bookstores produced the books they would sell. It was a business completely engaged with the public (an aristocratic public, to be sure). In fact, bookmaking and selling was then true "publicity," the rallying of public support for ideas. Murray even hosted an afternoon tea for his writers, his "Four o'clock friends." It may sound like a description of life on another planet (and it is), but a reader could go into Murray's store and buy a book by one of his authors, Pride and Prejudice, say, and then have tea with the author!
"Biscuit, Miss Austen? Now tell me in all candor, about this fellow Darcy "
As late as the 1950s there remained some of this family and community feel to bookstores, although the business of publishing had long ago been handed over to "professionals." For example, in my own San Francisco, there was this:
If you wanted a book, you told Paul about it. If you wanted to know about new books, he himself or his staff could tell you, or you could receive a newsletter. Now, were the books at Paul Elder's any more literary, or intellectual, or hip than those at Barnes and Noble today? I have no idea. I can say, though, that I found this advertising slip in a 1956 Modern Library hardback edition of Marcel Proust's The Captive (that I bought over the internet, sigh!).
The thing that Paul Elder's store was emphatically not was a place where ideas challenging the dominant political authority were first made public. No one had to go into exile for fear of what the authorities would make of the books Elder sold. This was so for a simple reason: once the selection and manufacture of books became specialized, separating writers, from publishers, from retailers, and once the centralized manufacture of books required real capital, the chance that this new industry would ever challenge the reign of free market capitalism and its multiform ideologies was reduced to nothing. Publishers made profitable commodities and they kept the lid on ideas. It's hard to say which of those two purposes was the more important. As my late friend Ronald Sukenick liked to say, "What can you expect from Simon and Shoestore?"
Another thing I can assure you of is that by the 1970s most independent bookstores, even in an area as literary as Berkeley/San Francisco, had thoroughly conceded the authority to determine what would count as literature to the commercial presses. The independents sold the same things that were sold at Barnes and Noble: NYT bestsellers, genre fiction, current affairs, and whatever NY was passing off as literary (domestic realism, eternally). When I'd go into a store in the '80s and '90s hoping for a sympathetic ear for Fiction Collective/FC2 titles, with nothing more than the polite query, "Are you stocking our books?" I was invariably greeted with an arch incredulity and a pained look that said, "That's not still expected of us, is it?" It was as if I were asking, "Would you like to burn some money?" It shocked me how little real understanding or sympathy (forget solidarity) we got from the so-called independents. With the forever-young West Coast exceptions of City Lights, Elliot Bay, in Seattle, and a very few others (the Gotham Book Mart in Manhattan, for example), I might as well have been in Barnes and Noble.
The unpleasant fact is that by the '90s the stores that could be counted on to consistently buy our titles were, ironically, Borders and Barnes and Noble, even if the books were mostly lost in their cavernous stores, or only sat in a warehouse somewhere until they could be regurgitated back our way in the form of murderous "returns."
As far as I'm concerned, the book business deserves to die if for no other reason than that its business model is something out of the 1930s: send a bunch of loser Willy Lomans out as "reps," people who don't read and don't understand the books they sell, and have them place the books on consignment, just as if they were old chairs that you were trying to unload at the local consignment store. As far as the bookstores were concerned, they were mostly purchasing decoration for their stores, so that it at least looked like a place to buy books. The few books that actually made money—celebrity memoirs, confessions of failed politicians, moronic self-help tomes, and jokey piss-jobs about not running with scissors—were profitably located on a few tables at the front of the store. Everything else was just ambience.
Bad as this was and remains, the really fatal flaw in this system is that it allows stores to buy new titles not with money but with the return of all the books you sent them months ago that they never sold, and never really had much interest in selling. How could they sell them? No one working in the store read books, and they were no more capable of recommending a challenging literary title than they were of shaping your investment portfolio or diagnosing a kidney complaint. Every few years in the '80s and '90s, B&N would take some sort of national warehouse purgative and back would come books you thought you'd sold months and years earlier. (I once watched in appalled amazement as two-hundred copies of a backlist title that had only sold maybe five-hundred to begin with was returned by Barnes and Noble five years after it was first released. I had to wonder, did we ever sell any copies of this book?) The best that most of our books could hope for was a short shelf life of four to six months, a single lonely spine out in an acre of shelves and books.
Now even that stupid and insidious racket seems to be failing.
With the death of each new generation of booksellers, each failed "business model," the independent literary writer/poet/publisher wants to say, "Good riddance, they had it coming," only to be mortified by how much worse the thing is that takes its place.1 In ten years, for people raised by computers (and by that I mean everyone), buying a book will mean buying an ebook from Amazon, Google, or maybe Barnes and Noble, if it survives. I asked John O'Brien, the legendary publisher of Dalkey Archive Press, what he thought, and he said this:
The greatest threat to book publishing in the United States right now is Amazon. Through various spin-offs, they have become a publisher, and this means that they are moving towards becoming both a distributor of books and a publisher, and no book publisher will be able to compete. In the future (and I am sure this is the plan) Amazon wants to control all distribution and all publishing. This is a very scary prospect: that a single company will have such power to determine what will be published and on what terms. Once the 'Amazon plan' is realized, they will be able to charge whatever they want to charge and will of course be able to decide what the best-sellers will be. They will have gotten themselves into the position of making such decisions because they will be the only game in town.
Even a year ago, O'Brien would have sounded paranoid to most people, but then came this article in the August 17, 2011 edition of the New York Times business section,"Amazon Set to Publish Pop Author."
Amazon moved aggressively Tuesday to fulfill its new ambition to publish books as well as sell them, announcing that it had signed Timothy Ferriss, the wildly popular self-help guru for young men.
Amazon has been publishing books for several years, but its efforts went up several notches in visibility when it brought in the longtime New York editor and agent Laurence Kirshbaum three months ago as head of Amazon Publishing.
We know that the major players are positioning themselves for a very uncertain future, but there are really only two major players, Amazon and Google. Everyone else is trying to figure out the best way to go bankrupt or to become something else, not publishers, God knows, but "content providers" for whatever word vessels the future will offer. From their point of view, the book was just a "platform" that had its day but it's done now, and so what? For its part, Amazon is merely doing what capitalist companies have always done: position itself to capture as much monopoly power as it can. That's all this is really about. But for a few of us the question is still: How in the hell is "literature" supposed to come out of this?
Even allowing for the possibility that Amazon will be a benign monopoly and will encourage or at least tolerate the continued unruly flowering of this thing we have known as literature, if you thought it was hard to find a book spine out at a superstore, try finding that book of poetry that changes your life and that you didn't know you were looking for in the web's ether, "in the cloud," as the techno-hip say. You'd have better luck finding a speck of gold in a bucket of sand.
Now, through word of mouth and blog site recommendations, some will find that book of poetry, although those folk will be, I suspect, mostly poets themselves, reduced now to a rarified species of hobbyist no greater in number than those enthusiasts who attend quilting fairs. (In all honesty, this is already a done deal.) But the population of people interested in finding that transforming book will become ever smaller. Literature requires a culture, a book culture, and the ebook and the web, for all of their wizardry, will forever be solipsistic.
Together, these things mean something murderous for the future of literature. But I wonder if there is really a reason to grieve the passing of this Platonic thing we have called Literature, with its periods, its crafts, its canons of major and minor "figures," and, most precious, its faith that it is possible, as the critic W. K. Wimsatt once put it, for a work to "endure as a poetic monument." There are at present few things more Ozymandian than the idea of a poetic monument. The "great works," the classics, are themselves now "colossal wrecks," and their only context is a culture "boundless and bare." The respectful privilege we once reserved for a work like Shelley's "Ozymandias" now seems like something from a past full of childish illusions. You can no longer refer to a work as a "classic," as T. S. Eliot liked to put it, without provoking a kind of amused condescension, as if to say, "You don't still believe in those, do you? It's so 1950." The narrative of the "Great Works" has lost its legitimacy, and we have lost our credulity. If that past, the past of the Great Tradition, is what something called literature seeks to preserve as its future, then I think it's easy to say that it has no future.
For those of us raised among the New Critics, it is sad to live in this twilight of the gods, and we will grieve their passing with whatever quiet dignity we can muster. But perhaps what we cared most about was never really "literature" anyway. Perhaps we've always suspected that, as William Carlos Williams wrote in Kora in Hell, "There is nothing sacred about literature, it is damned from one end to the other. There is nothing in literature but change and change is mockery. I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it will be good if the authentic spirit of change is upon it."
Or, as Williams' friend Marianne Moore put it in her poem "Poetry": "I, too, dislike it." Unless. Unless what we are talking about, unless what we are in danger of losing is of another order than mere literature. I believe that there is still reason to mourn if what is passing out of our culture is what Wallace Stevens called literature's "nobility." For Stevens, this nobility consists in, at a minimum, two things, two things that help us to live our still human lives. First, the Noble understands that literature's beauties are dependent upon, as Williams says, "change." Stevens put it this way in "Sunday Morning": "Death is the mother of beauty." It is the skillful openness to the world's transience that creates a clearing in which the beautiful can appear. As Keats wrote,
Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed,
But Death intenser—Death is Life's high meed.
But for the Noble Rider, as Stevens called it in The Necessary Angel, there is something beyond beauty. What poetry provides, and what we are spiritually impoverished without, are those moments in which it reveals the Real, a reality fully aware of its own fictiveness, its own final place in the mind. It is not "Literature" that provides this understanding, it is the efficaciousness (the force, the power) of the poem, an efficaciousness that the poem itself expresses best.
At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird's cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.
That scrawny cry—it was
A chorister whose c preceded the choir.
It was part of the colossal sun,
Surrounded by its choral rings,
Still far away. It was like
A new knowledge of reality.
This human Good cannot be touched by whatever happens to the institution of literature, let alone by what happens to our dismal book industry. The sordid avarice of media empires and their mendacious pimping of "content" cannot harm this Good, this Nobility. It not only has a future, it has its own eternity.
Hi, Curtis.
It's frightening to consider the destructive efforts of the megalithic multinational corporations, destructive not only because they advance a system of exchange that dishonors producers, communities, consumers, and the environment, but also destructive to aesthetic invention and innovation and critical thinking. So I thoroughly applaud and echo your rage against this machine here.
On another note, you write:
"Literature requires a culture, a book culture, and the ebook and the web, for all of their wizardry, will forever be solipsistic."
It's a damning sentence, but is it a death sentence? I'd love to see you further contrast "book culture" from whatever it is that engages with the newer media. In other words, how is book culture, as you define it, different, and presumably better than (as far as literary art goes) e-book and web culture?
Thanks for your thoughts here.
Take care,
I agree. I am drawn to a similar conclusion about the current and future states of "book culture." As Walter Ong taught us, book culture, for all the diversity of thought it promoted in its earlier eras, is really a machine whose end is a monolithic culture.
I studied lit years ago with an old guy, Vince Miller. He was not particularly a "new critic," and didn't really have a lot of use for them. I recall he had a debate with Mortimer Adler of "Great Books Curriculum and Encyclopedia Britannica" fame over the teaching of a literary canon of great books. He argued that if you taught only "great books" and dictate what constitutes "literature" to every generation, you'd eventually kill literature and the tradition(s)out of which new growth comes. You'd kill off "change" that enables you, as Pound put it, "to make it new."
The depressing state of literary publishing is only so if we think "Literature" is only to be had at the grace of the publishing industry. That is no more the case than the notion that food is only to be had at the giant grocery store.
"... and it will be good if the authentic spirit of change is upon it" - wow! Thanks for the great quotes.
I wonder if young poets will find their way online. I mean, to counteract Amazon, poets only have to post their bodies of work online, and then if enough critics gather around it - lo and behold, poetry! It may be near impossible, however, looking for poetry across the web, as you've said. But we no longer have a choice. If you don't want to write the bestseller du jour, then there's only the internet. Poetry will have to be a side occupation again. Not a hopeless state of affairs, I don't think. Amazon may publish all the pop writers the world wants, it won't touch poetry.
There are real questions as to how we determine what the 'great works of Literature are' and how they will endure. I suppose none will endure a massive asterorid. But this does not mean that every writer who publishes his next effort on Createspace is equal to Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dante, Joyce, Proust, Dostoevsky, Chekhov etc, the true greats of world - literature.
There is a certain community or perhaps a number of communities of readers who throughout the world know and care for Literature and what is good and great in it. This is not going to disappear.
I don't think literature will ever die.form may change E book take place of printed books but urge to say some thing to some one is natural instinct how can it die?From ancient time people using different form for to tell, oral, writing on palm of tree,stone and other many devises.So we must not lament for dying of printed books. We must celebrate reading e books on Kendal.
Dear Mr. White,
your espousal of the existence of a Great Tradition leads me to think you believe some of the Great Works in this tradition precede early modern publishing and marketing. Such works were able to be found by their readers. So, too, will great works be able to be found by readers now and in the foreseeable future; indeed published review and word-of-mouth are easier to find now than ever they were.
Will there be demand for such works commensurate with their artistic merit? Possibly not, but that is a consequence of change in the public and its tastes, not change in publishing and its means.
Doubtless writers will have their earnings reduced the greater the relative power of publisher/distributors. But professionalism in a technical sense does not imply excellence, nor does amateurism (again in a technical sense) necessitate inferior quality. Noone, artist or otherwise, is guaranteed that what he does will earn a livelihood. This is not a matter to be celebrated, but it remains the case that many of the towering novels, poems, and essays of human culture were written (just as proofs, concerti, experiments, and paintings were composed) for little or no material reward.
All of the dreadful books of the kind you rightly deride are available, and will continue to be so. But that is not a problem of publishing, nor does it fill me with invincible dread for the fate of literature.
As when people bemoan the state of politics, it is all too easy to blame exogenous things; politicians, publishers, critics. But the cause, in a democracy or market, is largely endogenous; the electorate, the reading public. We (in aggregate) ask for those dreadful books of 'strategic insights' and mis-spelled reflexions on love and loss by graduates of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. So be it: so long as we are still able to ask for Durrel, Juvenal, Laird or Canetti, cui malo? If the reading public have the discrimination required to sort the wheat from the chaff, then good books will still be read, and if not, then the form of the publishing industry is of little consequence.
Finally, I wonder why you find eBooks and the web "solipsistic". Very few of us (I hesitate to say "none") regularly declaim, except, perhaps to children or the infirm, even reading verse. As for bookshops, I cannot say I've noticed a decline in browsing (though I have noticed a decline in small bookshops). From what I can see in countries as diverse as the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and Switzerland, bookshop-browsing is just as popular and eusocial activity as it was before the internet. Your point that people go to Amazon with "a beast in view" is very true; they browse in bookshops and talk to friends, and even read critics in order to decide what to extract from the web. This is bad news for physical bookshops, but I don't think it follows that it is bad for letters.
Respectfully yours,
Sasha Maiyah
I'm out here in the Dallas suburbs. Thanks to your sublime article, I, once again, faintly remember what it is like to live in a world of ideas.
With billions of people on the net, obscure books will now
have far more readers.
Amazon has no lock and no control. Anyone can put an ebook on
the net, and they are easy to find.
You are so 20th century!
Mr. White,
Your article is one of the rare ones that have dared to take apart the myth of the "independent bookseller". In some respects, they were worse than the conglomerates; instead of interchangeable managers getting generalized stocking decisions made from afar, you often got independents that were, based on my experience, glorified airport bookstores that only carried what they were expecting their local customers to want: detective novels, cookbooks, celebrity biographies and so on. But who is to blame them? They were not trying to shape the tastes of their customers; they were just responding to them, and had to do so to remain in business, and most had to cope with limited space to begin with. If customers had started asking for experimental poetry in Urdu, you could safely have expected to find shelves full of it, either at Barnes & Noble or at your local friendly independent bookstore. What you could reliably find at both, by the way, was your so-called canon, or at least the better-known part of it, because even independents knew it would sell.
This makes me wonder, then, what type of bookstore whose passing you lament. Excluding the conglomerates and the mainstream independents leaves us with only the niche bookstores, that were in business not so much to make money but to propagate a cause: Marxism, queer studies and so on. I have nothing against niches -- far from it -- but the pandering element is still very much there.
You seem to fear, above all, the lack of competition that started under the large chains and now seems to have shifted to the web. From a competition/price perspective, there might be cause for concern (especially for authors and publishers), but I don't think homogenization is a problem, inasmuch as bookstores are not in a position to create it (unlike, say, the concentration of the press). Even if a large chain doesn't carry a book in stock, it's likely to have an account with most distributors and publishers, and will gladly special-order any obscure title you might be looking for; it's more money going to them anyway.
Where the situation could be potentially dangerous is if a particularly dominant bookseller decides to sell specific books for purely moral reasons. Here in Canada, the Chapters-Indigo chain is the bookstore behemoth, and in 2001, the CEO of the chain came across a book that said very, very bad things, so she had it banned from her stores. That book was Mein Kampf. Here is how she justified it: "We consider it hate literature. With freedom of expression, the line is drawn on hate literature. It's a corporate decision. It's what we stand for. It's our point of view." Beyond the inevitable "duh" response, Canada does have laws on hate speech, but the book is not banned -- historical importance and all that -- and her decision was quickly likened to Fahrenheit 451. She backtracked, eventually, but when Amazon wanted to expand into Canada a few years later -- which her company tried to block by citing foreign ownership regulations -- it was greeted like a saviour, even though there were plenty of reasons to fear it.
Amazon's decision to enter publishing was predictable and natural. Doesn't Barnes & Noble publish books itself, even if only reprints of out-of-print works? Doesn't it own part of iUniverse, a print-on-demand service, and even have an agreement to carry the most promising titles it churns out? For that matter, there is nothing new in the publisher-bookseller combination; a cursory search of Paul Elder's bookstore (closed in 1968) reveals that it was also a publisher of diverse works on subjects such as local history, the arts, and even poetry. Amazon? Too large for anyone's good, but it's going to take more evidence to persuade me that things were much better in publishing under the virtual monopoly of Bertelsmann.
One last thing: When you write that "no one working in the store read books, and they were no more capable of recommending a challenging literary title than they were of shaping your investment portfolio or diagnosing a kidney complaint", I have to ask whether it is the bookstore personnel's job to give suggestions or promote titles. I think you are right in calling those employees Willy Lomans (even though it implies that they are losers for working there), because that's how retail works. I remember my time working in an appliance store, where salesmen had no previous experience in appliances, but had plenty of experience as salesmen: tires, cars, swimming pools, anything that paid on commission. Some people I knew with plenty of experience in appliances (as repairmen, etc.) were not hired because they lacked sales experience. Just as that store wasn't looking for appliance experts as opposed to sales experts, bookstores aren't looking for reading advisors as opposed to clerks. Is it fair to expect, then, your average large-chain employee, paid minimum wage, to know anything about literature? (And why literature specifically? Why not history, science, politics, economics, or any other subject encountered in non-fiction?) English graduates might be desperate, but somehow I don't think they are that desperate.
One word: samizdat. Book publishing and retailing evolves, but words cannot be suppressed.
'Tis True, 'tis True 'tis pity, And pity 'tis 'tis True.' But what is one to do? The digital world is upon us and I for one have tentatively joined it, collecting my library of books in the public domain on my Kindle (for $00.00 or at worst $.99). I still frequent used bookstores, there to smell the mold while I search for little treasures. And my titles remain in print much longer than they would have otherwise.
Oh, and one detail from the article: it's sending out Lomans, not Loman's.
Fear not the changes, dear people. Economic and business structures come and go. Don't make permanent in your mind that which delivers the word; please remember that it is the word that is made immortal the moment it is written. Be content with knowing that forward is the only direction we travel. Poetry is the essence of being human and will be the machine code of artificial intelligence when computer languages develop far enough. It will be the creativity of the poets who, in sight of the human condition, can put the word on paper and processor, and provide our technology with the discernment to follow us into greatness. Keep writing! Your words are the most important tool our species have yet devised. Our technology has always taken our words' energy and converted it to action, so write, because your originality is the fuel of technology's future. Amazon, Google, the rest of the internet are elegant, empty lattices without you. Place yourself at the center of it all and thrive. We are so lucky to be here at the beginning. We get to fill in the foundations.
I've published 3 books with Amazon POD and Ebook. It's free and the quality of printing is professional. I can even make revisions after it's offically published. Since it's difficult for an author to proofread his own work, I really appreciate this feature. Amazon even allows the potential reader/buyer to read an excerpt in "Look Inside" and lets the author pick 5 to 7 keywords to link to his book's sales page.
The negative side of this type of publishing with Amazon is that POD is regarded as inferior. It seems informed readers avoid it.It still has to win the acceptance of authors, agents, bookstores and publishers. Another problem is that POD self-published books aren't taken seriously enough for industry reviews. Only Amazon customers who've bought and read the book(s) are allowed to post them.
Despite this I'm grateful for Amazon's service. I see it as the future of publishing, and that the long frustrating labor of getting published first in magazines to gain a name and credentials or getting a literary agent who can sell your manuscript to New York publishers is now no longer necessary.
This is too blinkered a view.
Shakespeare, the Number One figure of English literarure, never published — or more precisely, if what he did publish were all we knew of him, very few of us would ever have heard of him. What he wrote mainly was scripts for plays. These seem to have been mostly well received by London theater-goers of the time, so much so that pirating booksellers put more or less corrupt versions of some of them on the market. After he died his fellow actors had the lot printed up in one volume. Some people bought it. The playwright's repuation spread. Further editions followed, and within a century Shakespeare was being exalted by his countrymen as their great national poet.
It should be borne in mind that the entire English-speaking population of the world in Shakespeare's time was roughly equal to the population of a city like San Francisco today, with a smaller percentage of it describable as literary or even literate.
I have no idea whether Shakespeare — or Dostoyevsky, or Proust, or anyone else — will survive. Predicting the future is folly, as it is folly to believe that things of the mind, like literature, always owe their fortunes in the world to the economic sub-structure that upholds them. The latter is a Marxoid delusion, and Shakespeare's case is one of many that belie it.
Storytelling goes on, because it is innate to the species. Digital books are presently driving a revolution in publishing; an author who couldn't get a deal 5 years ago can now publish an ebook, and begin distribution overnight. No self appointed lit-crit gatekeepers ( the article fails to consider how much this select elite has controlled literary output in the analog era) to judge who is worthy...this is only serving to expand the literary universe, not diminish it. I do not doubt that Gutenberg faced similarily dire responses, but it remains a fact that I can acquire books today that I simply couldn't get a decade ago, and this is on account of amazon. There'smore chaff, but this is a small price to pay for the proletariatiaztion of the publishing world: the world of hip independent booksellers was always a fairly closed, insular realm, governed by a kind of literary elitism: in this sense, it greatly limited the realm of literary expression. Bookshops are dying, but publications are multiplying...one can lament the loss of an aesthetic and cultural epoch embodied by the hipster bookseller, but this should not be confused with the demise of storytelling, and our ability to access them.
This jumble of an essay never seems to find its footing. Is this an exposee on the avariciousness of Amazon or a lament for the clean and well lit bookshop of olde? Is his "literature" that with a classic, capital L or the vastly more numerous unread tomes condemned from conception to be unknown, unread and thus, unimportant? A written work will always rise to the level of its readership. The larger question is how to insure that the printed word, no matter the format by which it is delivered, can continue to exercise its transformative magic on capable readers.
I worked at the Pickwick Bookstore on Hollywood Blvd. in the the late 1960s. It was everything a bookstore should be (but of course it has been gone for a long time now). Everyone who worked in the store was an avid reader. Many were college graduates with degrees in the liberal arts. We worked for very low wages, because we wanted to spend our days in a literary environment. The store encouraged us to borrow books and take them home so that we could recommend titles to the customers. They provided us with copies of the New York Times Book review section each Thursday so that we could read the reviews and know what was what. Of course the store promoted best sellers and the other commercial output decried in your essay, but there was plenty of shelf space given to literary fiction, serious history and biography, poetry, drama and the great works of centuries and millenia gone by. I remember long and serious discussions of new books by Kurt Vonnegut, Phillip Roth, John Updike, Nabokov and others with fellow staff members. I also remember being made aware of important writers that I had not discovered in college, via these discussions with other members of the staff - John Barth standing out among these. In short, we cared very much about the literature we were selling. I feel very lucky to have had that experience. I can remember working side by side with Louis Epstein, the founder and, at the time, elderly owner of the store, who was himself a legend in the book world, a great lover of books and the literary tradition we seem to be losing. Eventually Pickwick was sold to B. Dalton, which in turn became part of one of the big chains. Now they're all gone. But as you say, change is the real subject of literature, and the times they sure are a changin'. On the other hand, I get 30 dollar books from Amazon for 16 dollars. It's not all bad.
Hello, Curtis. Thanks for your inspiring words. Yes, inspirational, because, even while you toll the industry's death, there are we writers yet out here, much as yourself, who write for the purpose of literary expression to captivate, enthrall, and change readers' lives. We have to find those readers, of course, because they still exist, even though in small numbers and infiltrated by distractions.
The digital world gives possibility even as it takes something away ... perhaps also "possibility." This is the revolution in which we writers have been thrust, and how we respond can make all the difference in 10, 25, and certainly 100 years. I don't lament the death of traditional publishers: greedy, self-satisfied, hucksters of pap sold to pap-lovers. That goes for agents, too!
I have written two novels in the past six years, one of which (The Village Wit) I ended up self-publishing through Amazon POD (and other ebook outlets), but through my self-branded "Siren & Muse Publishing" company. Sales have been good! Next year I shall publish a new novel, likely in the same manner, as I've sent out 75 agent queries and have only got 5 responses.
While there is enough chaff out there in the POD/ebook market, the wheat shall find the readers' mill. This has always been thus; something "Don Quixote" rode on more than 400 years ago.
Mark Beyer
Meanwhile, in the real world far removed from Curtis White's negative fantasies, I have read more "classics", literary fiction and poetry, over the past three years by accessing such works on line. White's apocalyptic attitude reminds me of those who probably objected to the printing press putting quill and ink writers out of business.
Not really. But I'm trying.
We must try and understand that brilliance will always shine through, eventually. There will always be seekers and they will find quality wherever it is and promulgate.
Maybe the problem is not content but format.
I have been a bookseller, publisher and a bad writer but when I see quality I shout about it to others.
We are in an acceleration phase, it will slow down.
The real issue could be that western thought may have to take a back seat to 'new' thought coming from the less encumbered cultures to whom modern tech is normal.
I was hoping this article would fulfill its promise by speculating on what the essential virtues of literature are, and how the electronic distribution revolution might affect their transmission. Instead, we got some blather about capital-n Nobility, and second-rate transcendentalist verse.
That books will continue to be written and published is not in doubt. The real question is: will there be a community of readers who discover new books, or merely a passive market that buys what the publisher tells it to buy? The publishers prefer the latter situation, as they have always done. There is a place for Amazon, but what we need is a mainstream resource that will serve the reader first - a YouTube or Facebook of literature.
I don't understand this supposed fear and loathing of a future where ideas are more easily shared, and more widely shared, than at any point in human history. If you see ideas confined to "literature" and bound up in a fixed thing called "a printed book," then I feel sympathy for that loss. For the rest of us, it's a wonderful, hysterical time to be in the business of dreams.
Neither independent bookselling nor radical ideas nor "book culture" depends on the existence of physical books and bookstores. There are no real barriers preventing a publishing company (or a group of interested writers) starting up a e-publishing outfit to compete with Amazon.com. Finding a book you want online in 2011 is ridiculously easy. Yes, it's harder to stumble upon a gem, but it's easier to know about gems in the first place because they get tweeted, reviewed, shared, and blogged all around web ad infinitum.
Amazon will only control e-publishing if slow-moving competitors let it. E-readers are a very useful, potentially disruptive tool when it comes to the sharing of knowledge, information, and literature. Amazon is gaining lock on the e-publishing is because they are selling a reasonably priced device specifically for the medium.
Dear Curtis,
Don't forget that posting is but the first step in the dialog with your readers. We patiently await your response(s).
I can't tell you all how much I enjoyed this whole discussion - what a joy to [accidentally]come across it. Thanks to all of you who participated.
The good news is that digital publishing allows decentralization at the same time it allows centralization. Amazon has seized the initiative and set itself up as the monopolistic new communications force, but the internet also does away with the need for centralized distribution: anybody can put a digital book up on a local website and make it available to millions through the magic of search engines. This fact contains the key to the undoing of the Amazon/Google/Apple would-be monopolies and in time I believe you will see an unprecedented diversity of publishing channels courtesy the internet. This will be good for literature.
Dear sir,
Your are wrong. Your view of history is skewed and thus, your conclusions end up ill-conceived and faulty.
The majority of books printed since Gutenberg's days have always belonged to the group mediocre-to-ridiculously-bad. A century, more or less, is needed to sift away the sand from the gold nuggets. And it is the readers, not the critics or the publisher's gate-keepers that find the treasures.
Internet will not change the importance of a trusted friend's book recommendation, it will make it more valuable.
And there will be more of better literature than ever before, because the publishing companies' marketing and trend departments no longer make sure that only books of a type that has already been proven lucrative will be published.
Best of all, e-books never go out of print and can be distributed everywhere. All that is necessary is to foster a love of reading is a book-friendly home and elementary school.
Writers and readers make literature. Critics are strictly optional.
Calm down.
I am reminded of the music industry. We've all heard the cautionary tale about the internet blowing into town and decimating it. Maybe they were slow to change or maybe their vanquishing was inevitable; either way, we are endlessly asked to believe, only a shell of the industry remains, and even that is tottering.
But here's the funny thing: Never before has so much outstanding new music been so readily available. There is iTunes and Pandora and Spotify, all of which will note your tastes and recommend new things you might like, very much like an old-timey corner bookstore clerk. Meanwhile singers and bands who once needed recording studios just to create music and factory-owning corporations to distribute it can now record professional-quality tracks in their apartments and offer them for sale to the world. Is their stuff hard to find? Most of it, most likely, but so much good stuff does bubble to the top -- through sites like Pitchfork, music blogs, and the aforementioned services -- that I am often hard-pressed to say "who" I am listening to these days, because so many excellent artists are so regularly brought to my attention. Perhaps I care about music more than the man on the street, but the man on the street also more likely than not never stepped into his corner bookstore to avail himself of its serendipity. Yes, music companies are hurting. True, there are fewer and fewer "rock stars," for all the good they did anyone. But the casual and avid listener alike is fathoms better off than before the internet "ruined everything," and there's no reason to think the same thing won't come to be true of literature.
Authors will self publish. That means NO editorial or corporate voice quashing controversial ideas, whatever that even can mean in this day and age. That means EVERY book ALWAYS available to virtually EVERYONE. Yes some digging for the good stuff will be required, same as always. However, just as happened with music, more and more increasingly-helpful services will emerge alongside digital publishing to help readers sort the wheat from chaff. Some may bristle at the idea of a computer algorithm recommending new authors, but nobody with a Netflix account can deny their often uncanny usefulness.
Quite honestly it's hard to think of a downside to publishing going digital. Every facet of the process will grow frictionless and new and cheaper works will appear at unprecedented rates. And, just as happened with the iPod and online music, as the process of acquiring literature grows ever easier and more rewarding, more and more people who had never been drawn to it or had drifted away will take to reading, which will in turn inspire better and better work from more and more authors. Perhaps some who were used to how things had always been will grumble and feel displaced, but in the larger scheme of things they of course are meaningless.
As an entrepreneur Google (Gmail, Google Documents, Picassa, Youtube) all fit into our world. They are so "on" it's amazing. Read Doug Merrill's book (former CTO of Google)- Getting Things Done in the Age of Google - it's very enlightening and informational. Amazon - there model is just perfect, including all of the things they are rolling out as part of Amazon Prime.
I hope you weren't as careless with all your facts as in your outrageous suggestion that Jane Austen could be found at a London tea with publishers and fellow writers. The woman hardly set foot in London in her whole life, did not deal with her publishers, and never met a famous person.
These facts are so well known as seriously to undercut the reliability of your polemic. But wiser heads have already rebutted much of that in the discussion here.
Hi Curt,
As usual, the bean heads line up to have a go at you. There's probably one or two blog entries above that even warrant the time to read. That's the way it usually goes, sad to say, but that doesn't mean that what you do and think shouldn't continue to evoke from the idiocracy all the ire and fantasmal postulating that the half assed reader and hair brained would be intellectual is capable of spewing. You are simply a much better thinker and more careful reader than maybe 90 percent of the poseurs above. I wish you still talked to me, but since you don't, this is one way to at least show you that I still applaud your literary and social commentary. As you know, never was much of a fan of your fiction, but then again, as you also know, I believe only a handful of writers who call themselves novelists are worth even a glance. Certainly not the boobs above who claim to be writers (except Rosen, I think; his entry is sensitive and insightful and wonderfully whimsical).
Keep going Curt; you are a winner!


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Providence, RI - The Providence Bruins fell to the Charlotte Checkers 6-2 on Friday evening at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. The P-Bruins received goals from veteran forwards David Ling and Brian McGrattan.
The Checkers showed no signs of having bus legs as they came out flying and struck first at the 3:50 mark. Rookie Zac Dalpe collected a Providence turnover and blanked Michael Hutchinson from the slot. Jacob Micflikier and Brett Bellemore assisted on the opening goal. Shortly after, two consecutive Charlotte penalties gave Providence a nearly full two-minute two-man advantage. Despite several opportunities on the five-on-three, Justin Pogge blocked all of the P-Bruins' attempts. The play went back and forth for the remainder of the period with Max Sauvé and Jordan Caron leading Providence's offensive surges. The goal lamp was lit with 2:07 to go in the frame, tying the game at one, but the goal was waived off as Pogge had control of the puck at the whistle.
Providence carried over the momentum from the goal called off late in the first and capitalized on its third power play of the game. A quick drop pass from Sauve low in the Checkers' corner allowed Joe Colborne to test Pogge, who couldn't hold onto the rebound allowing Ling to tally his fourth goal of the season 5:13 into the frame. The Checkers answered only ten seconds later to regain the lead when Oskar Osala stunned Hutchinson right off the face-off. Jon Matsumoto and Matthew Pistilli assisted on the play. Charlotte got on the board again five minutes later when Riley Nash beat Hutchinson stick side for the unassisted goal. Out-shooting the Checkers and with a two-goal deficit, the P-Bruins' frustrations began to boil when Nathan McIver dropped the gloves with Brad Herauf. Landing right after right on Herauf, McIver picked up his tenth fighting major of the season and his 76th penalty minute.
Career tough-guy McGrattan, notching his first goal and point of the season, brought the P-Bruins within one goal three minutes into the period when he beat Pogge from the low right corner. McIver and Sean Zimmerman assisted on the goal. Providence continued to ride the momentum of McGrattan's goal, getting chances from Zach Hamill and Jeff Penner. However, Charlotte capitalized at the 14:03 mark for a power play goal from Osala off the help of Jerome Samson and Nash. Just over a minute later, Chris Terry sniped a shot over Hutchinson's shoulder. Samson picked up his second assist on the play. Brett Sutter put the game away with a short-handed empty net goal with 50 seconds to play in the game. Pogge assisted on the Checkers' sixth goal.
Hutchinson suffered the loss, blocking 25 attempts, while Pogge stopped 28 of 30 shots. Providence went 1-for-6 on the power play and 3-for-4 on the penalty kill.
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While the New York Yankees look like the favorites to re-sign Ichiro Suzuki, it would not be shocking to seem him land elsewhere. The veteran outfielder proved during his tenure with New York that he still has something left in the tank. He proved that he can be productive for just about any team that wants him. And one of those teams that could be a fit may be the Philadelphia Phillies. David Waldstein of the New York times suggested the fit via Twitter. This is not a rumored suitor (please do not confuse suggestions and rumors), but rather it's something that could be plausible should Ichiro not sign with the Yankees. Gotta figure ichiro prefers Yankees, but Phillies special advisor Pat Gillick wasGM in Seattle when Ichiro came over so a connection there — David Waldstein (@DavidWaldstein) December 13, 2012 Ichiro has always been fond of his time in Seattle. He asked the Mariners to trade him this past season so they could move on and not feel obligated to pay him because of all he had done there. Of course, he also wanted to play for a contender. Part of his fondness, though, comes from Gillick's handling of the team while he was in Seattle. The connection may be a stretch, but Philadelphia realized in the second half of last season, they may not have to write off the near future and build for tomorrow. They can still compete with a few minor adjustments. The beauty of Ichiro, beyond what he gives a team at the plate and in the field, is the simple fact that he is always available. Ichiro is one of the most durable players in the league. He has played in 160 or more games 8 out of his 12 Major League seasons. He has played in at least 146 games every season of his career. Even last year after being hit by a pitch and being expected to miss time, Ichiro did not miss a game. He's also a career .322 hitter, which is nice. Follow @mlbinjurynews !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="http://www.mlbinjurynews.com//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-34100676-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();
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Cooking the beans and lamb at the same time frees you to work on other recipes in the menu. We loved the use of dry beans, but for a quicker approach, substitute drained canned beans. Just stir them in along with the bacon.
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 shank, 2/3 cup beans, and 1 1/3 cups sauce)
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- Calories: 506
- Calories from fat: 26%
- Fat: 14.5g
- Saturated fat: 5.1g
- Monounsaturated fat: 5.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.7g
- Protein: 60.2g
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- Cholesterol: 156mg
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