Learning & Teaching
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As with any unsettled industry, the world of publishing is a very competitive place.
And it grows even more so as larger numbers of authors go solo and learn the business for themselves, and as more traditional publishing houses find they can only afford to publish sure-thing projects.
Despite the competitive edge one has when holding knowledge that a potential adversary doesn’t, however, we see it as being in our best interest to learn all we can and teach the same. To show everyone — other authors, indie presses, and traditional publishing houses — how we do what we do, and why.
The reasons for this are twofold.
First, we feel that the business of publishing will continue to grow and flourish if we take the time to experiment and evolve. If we stop trying new things, we stop finding new solutions to an increasing number of problems, and so it’s vital that we have as many people and groups with as many balls in the air as possible. More experimentation equals better solutions for everyone to make use of.
And second, to shut down the exchange of ideas can only make the world of publishing more rigid. Fewer new ideas means a dependency on old ones, which means a greater chance of catastrophic failure, but also a larger propensity for really shoddy work on the shelves. We’re not just authors, we’re also readers. We want lots of quality work to read, and if the publishing industry stops innovating, we’ll suffer along with all of our readers.
In practice, our philosophies about learning and teach manifest in our community.
The Asymmetrical Community is a place for authors, editors, designer, publishers, bloggers, podcasters, and anyone else who’s interested in any aspect of the publishing field to get together and share their thoughts and resources and qualms and hesitancies. It’s a place for the free exchange of ideas and the proposition of new ones.
The Community is available as a free service for everyone, including the founders of Asymmetrical. Because at the end of the day, we have as much to learn as we do to teach, and we intend to do plenty of both.
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- Authors as Businesspeople
- Remove Hurdles, Build Trampolines
- Indie Publishing
- Learning & Teaching
- Vehicles & Stories
- Business Models
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