We couldn’t agree more with publisher Chris Fischbach in this article over at when he says:
Literature, in these instances, is less about product and more about engagement, about serving the different and changing needs and desires of audiences. Some of it is about different revenue streams, but not all of it.
That’s what we’re hoping to do on this site, too. Engage with readers. Stimulate conversation. Allow writers to share work with a larger audience.
As Fischbach points out, the model is changing:
This past January, I stood in the snow across the street from Matt’s Bar with a dozen fellow Minneapolitans, shivering in the subzero wind chill, as a short was projected on the side of the building—five atmospheric minutes of people walking through the snowy streets three years earlier.
Afterward, we went into the bar for cheeseburgers and beer. We didn’t sell a single book.
This is a new kind of publishing.
