Как в воду глядел :)

The history of publishing has been one continual series of disasters spelling doom for writers: Samuel Johnson destroyed the patronage system, and writers couldn’t make a living anymore. Newspapers stopped serializing novels, and writers couldn’t make a living anymore. Rental libraries went under, and writers couldn’t . . . The pulp magazines folded and writers . . . Ebooks and internet piracy came along and . . .

And yet here we are. Writers are as tough as rats. We’ve always found a way to survive and we always will.

Posted by Michael Swanwick (Friday, February 15, 2013)