Russell has been probing The Times Paywall and finds some concerning stats for it’s owners. The publishing industry must figure out a revenue model that works but what if every publication was behind a Paywall. How could we afford to read everything?
New technology has increased the quality and decreased the price of self-published books, and authors no longer have to print hundreds of thousands to make it viable for them. It is increasingly tough to have a work produced by one of the large publishing companies. In fact more than 98% of all unsolicited manuscripts submitted to traditional publishers are rejected. This is where Publish Me, New Zealand’s largest online self-publishing company comes in.