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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
I think the best part of indie uprising is the overcoming of the "not popular right now" trad pub showstopper because said books can still be "excellent in the genre they belong to" - how many books of superb quality just gathered dust in their authors drawers instead of being offered to the topics' clientele just because said topic just happened not to be en vogue at the given moment?
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One genre that has really flourished in recent years is straight superhero stories.
(Unlike the occasional litfic ironic deconstruction ala SUPER FOLKS.)
There's a *lot* of those and a lot are real good, too.
And at current comic book prices, the indie novels are a great deal.
If there is one genre the establishment sneers at more than romance it is superheroes but in indie-land it is the reader who decides what it worthy. For this alone, the openess to genre, sub-genre, cross-genre, and outright mutation the indie revolution will endure.
There's a lot of unmet demand out there that tradpub never bothered to even try meeting because their focus is on the next Patterson or King, not the next 25k midlister selling pre-dynastic egypt murder mysteries or romances. (Both of which I hear are pretty hot--we might start seeing some me-too releases from the big boys in a year or two.)