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from April 6


It is often said there are more people writing poetry than reading it – and our Ink Sweat & Tears chapbook experience shows this is true. Altho we never thought we'd make any money out of this, we did at least hope to get some (note the word some) sales & possibly even break even in the mid-term.





from April 12





* Following on from the demise of Ink Sweat & Tears' own chapbook publishing venture, we've been discussing this issue with a number of other publishers and the general opinion is that print publishing (of collections and magazines) in the poetry/literature field is dead – the only exceptions are: self-publishing by writers themselves; heavily subsidised publishing.....








I was struck by the "more people writing poetry than reading it" line. Do you think that is true? And that "the print publishing in the poetry/lit field is dead?" Wow. So if Poe or Austen or even Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends) were to try to start today, it would be almost impossible? Newspapers are dying a slow death. Does it follow that magazines and real books are next? I'm not ready to send up the white flag yet, but who know which way technology will flow.





What do you all think?





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