it’ll take you, like, 5 seconds. promise.
quick, anon eReader survey. It seriously took me less than 20 seconds.
9 per cent of escorts surveyed by Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh work in publishing during the day. (Click on pic to enlarge)
Oh dear. Is it too late to be a dentist?
I take issue with this:
The truth is that 99% of the stuff on the web is drivel, written by people with little experience in the area they’re holding forth about. (Pauses and waits for brickbat blogs and Tweets to tell me I’m an idiot …)
Quantity is no substitute for expertise.
Yeah, you’re an idiot. Skill, expertise, talent are just as rare in dead-tree publishing, the lack of which is even more criminal, given the expense of bringing a book into print. Statements like these make it sound as though readers of print publications only read the Encyclopaedia Britannica, when there is plenty of drivel sitting on bookstore shelves. 99% of what’s published on the web can be drivel, but they’re easily avoidable, and the 1% is educational, accessible, AND links readers to other “quality” websites and blogs.
