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Originally Posted by sbroome
How many new authors are making a living from the internet?
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Not many, but certainly more than there would be without it. Quality wasn't really what determined whether a corporation would publish a book or not, it was all about expected market share. Even Lord of the Flies was turned down because someone didn't think it would sell enough copies. As was Harry Potter, and one of the corporations who were bidding on Amanda Hocking said she wasn't a very good writer but readers seemed to buy them.
What the internet has done is give us all books that either never would have been written, or would have never got past someone's computer or desk drawer. It's also brought back a lot of genres that the publishers gave up on decades ago.