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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, but that was never published. I thought we talked about genres that was previously published and alive but dies when corporations moved into publishing.
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Well, I thought we were talking about why I will buy indie books instead of narrow-mindedly limiting myself to tradpub.
Do you think I care in the slightest *why* corporations aren't publishing a good book that I want to read?
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And superhero fiction can be seen as a sub-genre of sf I suppose. It might also be that since it is so common in comics the book market is very small.
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Way to go for a meaningless distinction. SF(&F) is an umbrella term that encompasses all sorts of genres that have the scary "imagination" thing.
Seriously -- people can't even agree about the
name of the genre, how are they going to agree about what is part of it?
I don't see what comics have to do with it either -- are you saying because people drew lots of pictures of superheroes, people aren't allowed to have a separate interest in words?
Graphic novels are getting to be a big thing these days, too.
The market
was small, because no one was publishing in it since it was a small market.
Indies started publishing superhero fiction because they were interested in it, and whoa, it turned out there is a market! At least, in the indie world, because people are selling it...
You can find a market for most things, if you try.