"[...]the huge shake-up in photography during the last decade. Amateurs, happy to accept small checks for snapshots of children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on photos but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting altogether." (For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path - NYTimes.com)Sounds familiar? Literary magazines are disappearing with University budget cuts. Science Fiction digests are going the way of the Dodo.
Yet, today there are more pictures and stories available and accessible than ever before. And let's not even get started about music.
Are all of them good? Of course not. As always, readers will be seeking the authoritative opinion of aggregating sites ("online magazines?") or simply their peers (think Netflix ratings). That is the next market.
Meanwhile authors fight about crumbles, and few realize that writing one novel every year or two as a profession will soon disappear.
As it turns out, lots of famous writers of the past had day jobs, and they still produced remarkable work:
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