On latimes.com, James Rainey has an article about Amy Hertz, the editor of the Huffington Post’s new books section.
“Hertz told me she has had so many submissions — “an embarrassment of riches”– in the opening days of HuffPost Books that she can’t find room for them all on the site, which does not pay for the pieces.
“I’ve always marveled at the way Huffington has been able to make like Tom Sawyer — so happily painting in her blog that she’s got people lining up to help her for free.
“I wondered if it was hard to ask writers, some of them struggling, to give their work away, even with the prospect that they might sell more books in the long run.
`”I’m not going to answer that question one way or another,” Hertz said. “I just don’t think it’s a useful question to ask at this point. It’s a new world.”‘
Perhaps. But as for me, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more.