CHALLENGES IN

CONTEMPORAR
Y LITERATURE
BSED-ENGLISH
 CHALLENGES 1-8

1. Literature is language-
based and national;
contemporary society is
globalizing and polyglot
2. Vernacular means of everyday
communication – cellphones, social
networks, streaming video – are moving
into areas where printed text cannot
follow.

3. Intellectual property systems failing.

4. Means of book promotion,
distribution and retail
destabilized.
5. Ink-on-paper manufacturing is
an outmoded, toxic industry with
steeply rising costs.
6. Core demographic for printed media is aging faster
than the general population. Failure of print and
newspapers is disenfranching young apprentice
writers.

7. Media conglomerates have poor business model;

economically rationalized "culture industry" is
actively hostile to vital aspects of humane culture.
 8. Long
tail balkanizes
audiences, disrupts means
of canon-building and
fragments literary
reputation