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Dimwit · 11-06-2011, 01:23 PM

It going to come down to marketing. Is a self published author perceived as a "real" author by the marketplace? How about just a digital only author?

My feeling is that having a deadtree version of anything will bring far bigger cachet and eventually money than the purely digital route and that "authorship" will become more a marketing term than anything else. If you can become a "name" whatever the source then you'll sell. Hardcopy brings legitimacy, but so does celebrity and/or facetime on public media. I can also see the time where credibility will be sold as access to market. Can you imagine a purely digital Stephen King imprint that focusses on new writers that he – or some sort of editorial committee that he's set up to vet the pieces – under the imprint?

11-06-2011, 01:23 PM	#2
Dimwit Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 12652 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Kobo	It going to come down to marketing. Is a self published author perceived as a "real" author by the marketplace? How about just a digital only author? My feeling is that having a deadtree version of anything will bring far bigger cachet and eventually money than the purely digital route and that "authorship" will become more a marketing term than anything else. If you can become a "name" whatever the source then you'll sell. Hardcopy brings legitimacy, but so does celebrity and/or facetime on public media. I can also see the time where credibility will be sold as access to market. Can you imagine a purely digital Stephen King imprint that focusses on new writers that he – or some sort of editorial committee that he's set up to vet the pieces – under the imprint? Last edited by Dimwit; 11-06-2011 at 01:25 PM. Reason: formating