Monday, April 14, 2008

And the significance is...

Several years ago the local Barnes & Noble had a selection of how-to-write titles that pretty much filled three shelving units (a shelving unit being approximately six shelves tall by approximately four feet wide). Over the years the shelf space devoted to how-to-write titles has slowly diminished. Today, for the first time, only a single unit contained how-to-write titles. The other two units that once held how-to-write titles was filled with dictionaries.

I'm certain this is significant in some way. I just can't figure out what the significance is.

2 comments:

Stephen D. Rogers said...

My guess would be that people aren't as interested in improving in order to get past the gatekeepers. It's just so much faster to self-pub.

Kevin R. Tipple said...

This has been happening here as well. Stephen could be right on this.