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 @Cybren and
Let me rephrase: "If you, as an author, are able to get your work trad-pubbed, you personally are almost certainly going to be better off going that route than self-pubbing the same work."
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Replying to @iridienne @Cybren and
Sure, but, to the extent that gatekeeping has a purpose, it's to ensure the pie gets cut into fewer slices. And, sure, that's necessary for anyone at all to be able to make a living writing, but it's worth taking a moment to remember that it does exclude people.
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Replying to @Random832 @Cybren and
Well, yes, but ideally it excludes mostly people with work that sucks. Obviously we don't live in an ideal world but like, i WANT gatekeeping for my reading material. I only read self-pubbed books if they're heavily, heavily recommended, because the vast majority are utter shit.
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Replying to @iridienne @Random832 and
The vast majority of trad-pubbed books aren't any good either, but they have at a minimum been edited by someone who has a nodding acquaintance with subject-verb agreement and how to make a plot hang together.
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Replying to @iridienne @Random832 and
Yeah okay when people talk about Sturgeon's Law it's like this exponential thing, it's like the movie Powers of Ten When you say that "90% of everything is shit" you mean that 90% of all the *famous, highly thought of* books out there will probably be "shit" if you read them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Because there's no accounting for tastes, a lot of tastemakers are kind of vapid and corrupt, etc But overall on a baseline quality level those books are still gonna be head and shoulders above *all the books ever published*, most of which you'll never read
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EXACTLY. That's my point. They have at a bare minimum been looked at by a fucking copyeditor and read, at least once, for a minimum level of "does this even make any fucking sense?"
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