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Originally Posted by NickSpalding
Good grief...
All I was trying to do was point out that writers are more likely to be successful if they have an agent and a publisher behind them - and that self-publishing in nowhere near mature enough yet to be a convincing alternative to authors who want to professionally write for a living.
I've never defended DRM and never would. It's bloody stupid.
I didn't mean to get anyone's backs up. This is obviously a sensitive matter for a lot of people, so I'll stay away from it.
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I'm sorry I jumped off on you, but I'm so fed up of being told that I'm somehow less of a writer because I don't want to go through the publishing industry. If I was a musician nobody would bat an eyelid if I started up my own label. As an actor nobody would care if I was doing local theatre productions, but every other writer I meet has this same weird attitude about their own art and how it means nothing if they're not sanctioned by a few corporate book publishers and their hangers on.
So again, apologies, my tirade was more of a build-up of annoyance at an attitude, rather than at you personally.