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Originally Posted by ChaoZ
Maybe this is just me, but when I see an author I'm not familiar with aggressively promote his or her own material through forums and social media, a part of me automatically casts a negative view on the book. It's as if subconsciously, I feel that if a writer's product is good, there would be no need for self promotion of that kind - it would be done through word of mouth, through the publisher etc.
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I completely understand where you're coming from, and yes I think it is an outdated way of looking at it, unfortunately it will be hard to break for some people.
In the old model the only way to advertise was with a fair amount of monetary backing, usually you could only get that through an association with a publisher (unless you had your own money).
With the rise of the internet and various ways of self (or small press) publishing, not only electronic although that makes it even easier, authors can market their works for substantially less money than even just a few years ago.
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Originally Posted by Pookeysgirl
I've learned of new authors right here at MR that I never would have found cruising the isles at Chapters  |
So have I!! Some have been quite good and I've gone on to purchase additional works by them. On the other hand some, like ChaoZ fears, have been pretty terrible.