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Originally Posted by Fbone
I agree with this. The publishing industry is already fragmenting into hundreds (literally) of indie and self-publishing entities. How can this be healthy for the industry? Unless most are hobbies and short-term interests.
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Some are hobbies and short-term interests. Others, I fear, are born of wishful thinking, and reality will make its presence known soon enough.
There's an extensive discussion elsewhere on self-publishing. I have a simple take on it. If you just want to
write and have your book(s) out there for people to read, and your satisfaction is in having the finished product with full control over the process, self-publishing is an appropriate route to follow. If you want to make any real
money writing, it
isn't.
Most folks self-publishing are making beer money if that. The few likely to do better have already developed an audience that will buy their work through being traditionally published and achieving success.
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Dennis