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Originally Posted by teh603
Everyone was self-published until the early 20th century, or so.
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.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
They'd have a theme park and cable TV station now.
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Action figures! That's where the followup money is.
The new movie "Captain America" is set up to sell distinctive action figures and neat war vehicles.