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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
So my simple question is if you can't make money writing, who will write?
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Most people don't really make any money now writing. My prediction is that even greater numbers of people will not make money writing in the future. They will find that though they give their books away in the hope of attracting an audience, still most people won't read their books because just about all titles are free. The daunting number of free titles on most people's reading devices will induce a condition that will become a diagnosis: eReader Despair. Faced with impossible choices — where even to start? — many people will give up on reading in favor of watching YouTube videos obsessively. An innovator will offer a self-publishing how-to title that advocates paying readers to download and actually read your book. Writers will begrudgingly admit that this is a cost saving strategy that is more effective than the endless tweets, blog and forum posts they previously created to promote their work. Eventually only the rich and college creative writing professors will be able to afford to be writers, which will return us roughly to where we were ten years ago. History really is cyclical.