PR, sweetie

'Huge bookstore chains on every highway, Internet retailers, blogs, book clubs and other tools of publicity have changed the scale of the [fiction publishing] business', claims Wesley Yang of the New York Observer ( found first on TEV). I find that a luxurious sort of statement, I don’t think litbloggers are in this to make the publicists’ or publishers' lives easier. Unless it's to highlight the idiocy of chasing prizewinners and hot new things. Wang' s article addresses this last behaviour tellingly.