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
Er, what? That's only "most authors" if you don't count the ones who don't get deals, isn't it?
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Replying to @Random832 @iridienne and
If you don't get a deal, you are STILL better off not self-pubbing You are better off doing ANYTHING than self-pubbing, like spending that time working at Arby's
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 and
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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