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Originally Posted by stonetools
I do cite him a lot, but I've also cited others. Heck , how often has JA Konrath been cited around here as the fount of all wisdom on publishing?
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Konrath's made millions following his own advice. Several other people are very, very happy with their publishing income after following his advice. Some have become millionaires; some have just sold more books than they thought they would through legacy publishers; some believe they owe him for more than money. At least one believes Konrath
saved her life.
How many people have gotten rich by applying Shatzkin's ideas of how publishing works? How many lives has his blog saved?
Shatzkin writes some good stuff, and it's definitely ideas worth considering. And Konrath goes off the deep end sometimes, and is amazingly blasé about Amazon's growing monopsony. But there are reasons that Konrath gets quoted by a lot more people--he's making statements that people find useful and directly applicable to their lives. Shatzkin mostly talks theory that will take years or decades play out; there's no immediate way to check his accuracy.