> and also people are forgetting how to read and write them.
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I don't think books are dying or that people are forgetting how to read/write them at all
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Oh. Maybe it’s just me :-) Did you have something particular in mind here, or just no evidence of decline?
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revenues are declining but that's unit-cost effects. Iirc # of new titles up yoy since kindle
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what's happening I think is good essays showing people how crappy/unnecessary 90% of books are
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Real books (40k+ top-down words on something that needs 40k+) will go back up if $ problem solved
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I think this is partly a tech problem, common to getting creators paid in general. Need micropayments.
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micropayments sounds like a broken record at this point, no? any good evidence that this is the problem?
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Well, most anyone who blogs wd like to see a proportional income stream. How else is that going to happen?
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btw... the one actual book I wrote wasn't written in anchor --> outline --> flesh out way
it was massive brain dump on 5h flight --> start writing --> refactor structure 10 times--> finish
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Ideally TOC is LAST thing you write. Only reason we don't is need to pitch proposals to $ sources
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Creating an outline is a *tax* and inefficiency you impose on book writing process to raise OPM
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