Yeah, there is a lot of great stuff that can only happen under such a model It can also turn real ugly real fast
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
As can any model. It's just this one allows smaller content creators to get access to a paying audience, which seems like a net positive for both sides.
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Replying to @phyphor @arthur_affect and
Except it DOESN'T really allow that, except for a few rare success stories. And in order to make any money whatsoever you still have to do a ton of shit that a lot of creators AREN'T GOOD AT and SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO, like fucking marketing.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
How do you think new authors got published in the past? Did agents go door to door asking if anyone was writing anything? Authors have always had to market themselves.
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Replying to @phyphor @iridienne and
It's just now they have to market to an audience not an agent, who takes a cut, to go to a publisher, who takes a cut, to print, which costs money, etc.
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Replying to @phyphor @iridienne and
Do you think writer today don’t need agents
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I mean. It's a dirty word but gatekeeping absolutely serves a legitimate purpose, and it's one major reason why trad-pub is still better FOR MOST AUTHORS than self-pub.
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Replying to @iridienne @Cybren and
Charles Stross helped turn me around on this issue with his blog posts about it many years ago And one repeated point he made was that the promise the digital evangelists made to you that piracy was "free advertising" that would just help you go viral was absurdly false
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Because EVERYONE IS TRYING TO GO VIRAL And there is a finite number of consumers in the universe, who have a finite amount of time, money and attention "I'll just keep on giving my work away for free, forever, until I get so famous someone pays me $10 million" was always insane
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
The value of just making your work "available" is now LOWER THAN IT'S EVER BEEN Yes, pretty much everything anyone has ever written or recorded can be found on the Internet with little effort now And nobody ever expends that effort Almost all of that shit just gets ignored
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This is part of that dual quote, "Information wants to be free" and "Information wants to be expensive" The two exist in constant tension People as a whole are, yes, constantly trying to break past barriers and make content free But once it is free they don't give a shit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
The fact that some lucky few got lucky and got rich, even though other people may have written better stories doesn't make me weep that they might now have to face competition from everyone.
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