Thread: Why authors choose to go ‘indie’, and why the standard varies.
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Old 02-25-2011, 01:44 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin View Post
I wonder if it ever occurred to any authors to set up a self-published blog, write away short stories or chapters as blog entries and have a donate link through pay pal somewhere in the page and if so, how well it turned out in financial terms?
Lots of people do that. A few even got vanity publishing deals because of it (David Wellington and Scott Sigler spring to mind). Others, like Scott McKenzie or Anthony Barnhart just published it themselves through Amazon/Lulu when it was finished.

I doubt many people will donate money though, unless you left it at a cliffhanger and threatened not to write the next chapter. Things like that would be more use as promotion for the final product than direct income generation while you are writing it. And maybe a source of free editting advice and proffredding.
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