Guest Column: The Promise of Poetry in a Digital Age
Sourcebooks' publisher sees a broader market potential for poetry ... and believes she has a solution for maximizing it.
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Addressing the Napster Problem
Amidst all the worry about e-book piracy, as an industry we seem to have ignored that poetry also has a Napster problem. Go ahead, drop a line from your favorite poem into a search engine—almost assuredly you’ll find the entire poem on a Web site, in most cases without permission. If you ask a musician how long it takes them to complete and perfect a song, the answer is usually anywhere from days to months. For a poem and a poet, the timing often is about the same. And yet our poets’ work has bled online unfettered. It is infringement run rampant. Is a poem just a little text or is it, in fact, an individual work of art? We’re in the latter camp—and poets should be compensated for their craft.
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