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Originally Posted by Moejoe
It's for the very same reasons that bands start up their own labels, actors still work in the theatre and writers now turn to the digital. Freedom. If you want to be tied down to some mega-corp and the feckless idiots who work the ladder within that corp, go for it. You're just another company man then, another yes-sir, no-sir, three-bags full hired gun. If you need the permission of a company to value your own creation, then that speaks volumes for that creation. Now you're making a product, not art, not literature. You may as well be flogging Cornflakes.
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Freedom is great. So is paying the bills.
A piece of creative fiction is a product - just as much as anything else somebody makes.
I write because I love doing it, love making literature - but gosh darn it, I also know I'm trying to create a product other people will want to read.
More people will read it if I'm an author with and agent and a publisher behind me.