Ray Connolly's
article, to which this is a reaction, is the standard 'Self-publishing is the new gold-rush!' fare, but I had to laugh at the following:
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Perhaps the Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and other rock acts, who reputedly made their first records privately, even in their bedrooms, are showing the way forward for writers.
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Yeah, right, they built a niche following of fans on MySpace, then used that to convince a record label to sign them so they could make some
real money. Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen did
the exact opposite of what Connolly (and others) propose - they used self-publishing merely as a step up to the big-time of a mainstream contract.