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Richard Nash Quotes

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“By defining books as against technology, we deny the power of the book.”
— Richard Nash, What is the Business of Literature?
Tagged: Thought Technology, Books
“The lack of video, the lack of audio, the lack of ways to change the forking outcomes of plot is a feature of literature, not a bug. And, as it turns out, books are interactive. They’re recipes for the imagination. Conversely, video is restrictive—it tells you what things look like, what they sound like.”
— Richard Nash, What is the Business of Literature?
Tagged: Media Theory, Books, Power Of Reading, Why You Should Read Instead of Watch TV, Book Technology, Why Books Are More Powerful, Against Television as Art
“Publishing has no particular ability to discern what is good or not, what is successful or not. This is true not just at the level of predicting commercial success, but also at predicting critical success. I already discussed great writers who almost vanished, books that slipped through the corporate-publisher cracks, and then between the indie cracks. If one could predict a Pulitzer Prize winner, why did Bellevue Literary Press end up with Paul Harding’s Tinkers, or Soft Skull end up with Lydia Millet’s Love in Infant Monkeys, which was a finalist that year too? If great editors could predict National Book Award winners, why did McPherson & Co. publish Lords of Misrule, or if editors could predict PEN Award winners, why did Red Lemonade publish Vanessa Veselka’s Zazen?””
— Richard Nash, What is the Business of Literature?
Tagged: Random Publishing, Lose Control, Publishing Strategies, Death of the Editor, No Arbitrators, No Judges, Your Taste Does Not Matter
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