And this is coming from someone who was super supportive of Patreon when it started (I even liked Jack Conte and his girlfriend's band Pomplamoose they created it for) "Finally, a way to directly support a person without paying for a specific product"
That's very cruel and harsh but it's true from a numbers perspective Not writing the book at all makes you zero dollars, while self-pubbing will almost certainly make you a quite high negative number of dollars (especially if you think your own time has value)
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That's a blanket statement and it's not completely true but if you've looked at the self-pub ecosystem it's not encouraging Like people who successfully play the self-pub game are NOT passionate people who just have a story to tell They treat it like a business
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The most consistently successful self-publishers are people who sell how-to nonfiction books of various kinds, which are either too niche or too scammy/culty to succeed in the mainstream
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Publishing on demand is working for some. Enough for them to pay an artist to make the cover art, even
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Heck, I've even got a print version of a story that was originally written on Reddit, to support the author.
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