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Originally Posted by stonetools
If you are going to buy indie, well, that's great-keeps the major publishers on their toes. Most buyers are going to buy established authors, because they know that Steven King or James Patterson will deliver, whereas they have never heard of aspiring author Stephanie King , who can only compete by doing everything herself and pricing her book at used book prices.
There is a place for everyone in the ebook market, just as there are places in the car market for the BMWs and the Infinitis,(to say nothing of the Ferraris and the Bentleys) as well as for the Sentras and the Chevies. you don't have to sell BMWS at Sentra prices.
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Stonetools, let me explain again. Indie is the new pulp. Historically there are a lot more pulp readers than high-brow readers.
If "Stephanie King" ever builds up a fan base (which may happen over time) it's
her fan base, not a Big 6 publisher's. All the money will be hers. Like any other businessperson's business.
A lot of
gerne bestsellers build up their reputation among their fans the hard way, in the pulps. Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, LeGuin, all started in the pulps. They "cashed in" with the bestsellers later. That's what the system allowed, until recently. But nowadays, that's only one choice among others. Both for the writer and the readers. Pulps is back, and more profitable than ever. And the more successful an author becomes, the less reason to "graduate" to the big leagues...