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Originally Posted by cfrizz
We are no longer held hostage by the publishers waiting for the next release of a favorite author. We simply move on to someone else, and hope we still remember that author when they finally make the next release.
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Neither are the prolific authors limited by the publisher's schedules.
And there's a lot more of those than people realize: an experienced, disciplined author can easily put out 2000 (publishable) words a day which, working just 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, comes out to six 80k novels a year.
In the past, full time writers had to scramble to find venues for their output (pen names, short stories, essays, reviews, etc) but without those constraints can work as fast as their muses allow them. Satisfying the True Fans won't be hard, finding them will remain a challenge, though.