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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
If I was dependent for my livelihood to write fiction I would seriously look into writing movie scripts.
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I wouldn't.
Unless you're targetting Bollywood.
Hollywood is on a downward spiral of ever less, ever more-expensive product. Theater attendance is on a steady decline and industry revenues are only propped up by increasing ticket prices and absurd candy and drink prices.
DVD revenues are down and the studios are struggling to find a viable business model to make up the revenue.
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The only way I would target video as a venue for a story of mine would be if I was prepared to take it all the way myself, probably for one of the emerging digital distribution channels; Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, or yes, Amazon.
The problem of abundance--of too much product chasing too little revenue--is not exclusive to books or to the creative industries but rather a sign of the greater economic problems of the times. You can find it all over; world-wide auto manufacturing over-capacity, B&M specialty chains folding, housing...
In the creative industries, the problem of abundance is simply magnifying the eternal problem of visibility. In the old days, visibility was about getting through to one of the gatekeepers--now, as the gatekeeping power is broken, visibility is about finding ways to be noticed in the flood of ever-available content.
No silver bullets are to be found.
Expect excellence to be a merely necessary, but not sufficient, pre-requisite for success. Which is pretty much as it always was, right?
The more things change...