{"id":124,"date":"2012-01-05T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/publishing-predictions-for-2012.html"},"modified":"2012-01-05T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T10:49:00","slug":"publishing-predictions-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/publishing-predictions-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Predictions For 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6r5s7S6CNeU\/TwV_zBuol2I\/AAAAAAAAE-8\/S-Rd_kaOOp0\/s1600\/e%2Breader.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" width=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6r5s7S6CNeU\/TwV_zBuol2I\/AAAAAAAAE-8\/S-Rd_kaOOp0\/s400\/e%2Breader.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Literary Agent Steve Laube posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authormedia.com\/2011\/12\/29\/2012-publishing-predictions\/\">this link <\/a>on his blog yesterday. Read it and let me know what you think. <b>What are your publishing predictions for 2012?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a given about the e-books really taking off. I mean, bookstores are closing down and more and more people are purchasing Kindles and Nooks. I thought it was interesting what some of them said about self-publishing. It appears that some of those who commented on the link above felt that more authors would be self-publishing since the publishing model for commercial publishers wasn&#8217;t set up for e-pubbed titles. I do know that commercial publishers are re-releasing old titles as e-books, but the authors may not be getting a fair percentage of the cover price. <\/p>\n<p>It kind of makes you wonder about the roles of editors and literary agents. Will their roles be changing in 2012?<\/p>\n<p>So, after reading the above-mentioned link, share your thoughts. <b>What are your publishing predictions for 2012?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary Agent Steve Laube posted this link on his blog yesterday. Read it and let me know what you think. What are your publishing predictions for 2012? It&#8217;s a given about the e-books really taking off. I mean, bookstores are closing down and more and more people are purchasing Kindles and Nooks. I thought it [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}