This morning I have send this message to the Tidbits-list of the Poynter Institute, hoping for some smart input. Maybe here my readers have also their thoughts:
My already longstanding plan is to write a book on how the internet is causing a communication revolution in China, targeting an often ignorant outside world. Last year the plan did not work out. Too busy, no decent sponsorships and actually I was so familiar with the subject i feared it
would bore me to death.
Now, the situation is changing. I'm getting involved in Chinese plans to double the number of internet users from 115 million now to 230 million in five to ten years time using 3G mobile connections. That is a too big story not to write up.
The plan is to write my book on "The second communication revolution in
China"partly with the help of the audience of my weblog I explained that this morning to the
publisher who agreed last year to publish my original book and he came this morning with a rather frank assessment. "What is our added value for your book," he asked. A fair question in this digital age.
Mostly my gmail account does a good job in removing spam, but last week a messages from www.lulu.com made it to my inbox. The offer: DIY-publishing at virtually no costs. Now, I'm pondering: should I take up that offer, or do you think publishing houses still have added value? Any experiences out there? Can we do it all without publishers?
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