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Originally Posted by Arithonne
I would think that a good bookstore employee would direct customers to books they think the customers would enjoy. That doesn't mean that's what happens in the real world, especially if the big publishers are paying stores to push certain books.
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Exactly.
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Originally Posted by Lemurion
That's why people like Stackpole and Konrath are benefiting the most from this situation: they're leveraging the benefits of indie publication to serve an existing audience. Authors without an existing audience have to create their audience before they can serve it. It's simply easier for those authors who only have to do one thing rather than two.
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And exactly. This is the spot I find myself in: I can't break through the mass of advertising and promotion of the big publishing houses, already-established authors
and the vast sea of indie authors, all trying to claw their way to the top of the hill to be seen. I generally feel like a single pixel on a movie-sized screen of static.