Thread: Should writers give up on getting paid for their writing?
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Old 04-04-2012, 06:09 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington View Post
New tech always encourages new players. In time, people will leave the market once they realize that there will never be enough paying readers to make the investment in time, effort and emotion pay off.

Then, people will make money again!
Nah, they will just be replaced by an ever growing army of new amateurs, like the people on Ebay who sell things for less than it will cost them in selling fees.

I think if anything you're more likely to be able to make money writing now than you ever have in the past, which is probably why you only ever see the old-timer writers complaining about it.
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