Posted on 05/15/2005 6:28:47 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Oh, how we conservatives once envied liberal writers. Just 10 years ago, liberal writers could propose a book on, say, how American capitalism stiffs the workingman or how the bourgeois family spawns injustice. Major publishers would respond by throwing oodles of money their way, or at least consider putting out the book. But pitch a critique of affirmative action or a defense of limited government and, unless your name was Buckley or Will, you'd be lucky to get a personalized rejection letter.
There was "a tremendous amount of marketplace and institutional resistance" to publishing conservative books, said Adam Bellow, an editor at Doubleday. The New York publishing world was a liberal preserve.
How things have changed. Over the last 18 months, three superpower publishers have launched conservative imprints: Random House (Crown Forum), Penguin (Sentinel) and, most recently, Simon & Schuster (Threshold, headed by former Bush aide Mary Matalin). Nor is that all. ReganBooks and the Christian publisher Thomas Nelson are putting out mass market right-of-center books, while mid-list conservative titles pour forth from Peter Collier's 5-year-old Encounter Books and several smaller imprints. There's never been a better time to be a conservative author.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Just goes to show you how much power the publishers hold. The market was always there.
WRONG! The correct answer is:
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Conservative have higher credibility than liberal books. As a result, conservative books sell.
Also goes to show that while the upper management is probably still left of center, the pursuit of profit can override ideology.
This may represent a trend that will grow, but at the moment these will be tiny conservative imprints put out by huge liberal publishers. In other words, the big publishers will still be around 97% liberal, with a few small conservative imprints.
It's like saying that conservative talk radio, Fox News, and a few blogs balance liberal TV and newspapers. They do to a degree, but the news is still 95% liberal, and most people still see nothing else.
Yes, but progress is still being made, bit by bit.
Note, that this column was in the LA Times, a very very liberal paper. Wow.
Conservative authors can write.
And conservative audiences can read...
That's it in a nutshell.
Regnery Publishing. Check 'em out.
"Conservative have higher credibility than liberal books. As a result, conservative books sell."
In addition, Liberals are getting stupider, as is Liberalism. After all, what are Conservative books, really? They are books about the world and what is happening. There are disagreements, quite significant ones. But the overall shape of events is obvious.
To Liberals, Conservative books appear to push an Ideology. But it is the Liberal books that push an Ideology. Ideologies are lies. Hence, Liberal books are boring, and increasingly, I believe, Liberals tend to be people who do not read much. Even reading Liberal, PC fiction (which is most fiction nowadays) is no fun.
I don't know what kind of books you like to read, but if you like fantasy, may I suggest Terry Goodkind and his Sword of Truth series. They are excellent books, very conservative and engaging.
Actually Conservatives DO read and DO write.....while liberals spend most of their time WATCHING TV.....and listening to PUNDITS in the MSM......IMHO
Hey, thanks for posting this.
Ain't it fun to watch them squirm?
And conservative audiences can read...
Are you saying that liberal dominance of education is finally catching up with them?
That's the key.
Nobody reads liberal books except sandal-clad professors, Upper West Side snots, Hollywood sissies, and liberal newspaper writers. Most of the rest of the Democrat base can't read, or just isn't real interested in reading.
Conservative books, however, have a built-in reader base of genuinely curious and intelligent taxpayers.
Correct, just as the market for conservative talk radio was there but no one was willing to risk it until Limbaugh came along. Now the air is full of conservativism. Add to that the internet and forums like this. As you say, the conservative market was always there but except for Buckley we weren't the "elite" so we got ignored.
Sorry, dont't like fantasy. I like spy books & mysteries. I like Gordon Kent's stuff, which includes a lot of Navy things mixed with spy things. But usually I don't like strictly military fiction. Loved Zane Grey, but never found another Western author I liked.
"Then compare and contrast the lefty books with the conservative books."
Where I live, there are no conservative books in book stores! Maybe Ann Coulter, that's about all.
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