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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
I'm not sure whether the change is as drastic as all that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Jack London self-publish? Christopher Paolini certainly did, as did a number of other authors whose names later became household words.
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Everyone was self-published until the early 20th century, or so.
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Amazon has lowered the entry barriers for self-publishers and the internet has provided far more sense of community than they've ever had before, but authors acting as entrepreneurs is most definitely not a new occurance.
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No, but given how authors haven't always had much in the way of a community of practice, it might as well be. The same is true for the author's newly re-found ability to bypass the print publishing industry's gatekeepers without having to resort to vanity self-publishing houses.
I wonder how the original circle of Cthulhu Mythos writers would have done if they'd had access to the modern internet.