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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Strange thing is: where do all these writers come from?
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I'm not certain. They seem to breed like cockroaches.
I interact with the self-publishing crowd elsewhere, and it reminds me of the old joke about two Chinese trapped at the bottom of a well getting rich taking in each other's laundry. The folks they seem to feel are most likely to
buy their work are other self-published authors.
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Surely it's much harder to write a book than to read one, so logically, even if only one in 100 people is a writer, it would be much easier to have more people to read than to write.
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As mentioned, there are something like a thousand new books a
day being issued now.
Someone is writing them.
Speaking personally, I can't be bothered to spend the effort looking for the odd nuggets of gold hidden in the enormous amount of slurry that is self-publishing. I have way too many traditionally published books I need to find time to read. I have none to spare panning for fool's gold on the Internet.
The biggest service traditional publishers perform is
rejecting work. They need to publish stuff that can sell, and are fussy about acquiring stuff they think
can sell. It might not be to my taste, but it's unlikely to be "gouge eyes out with spoon after reading"
bad.
The Internet is now the largest slush pile in the history of publishing. There's a reason it's called "slush", and most houses no longer look at unagented submissions. Now the long suffering readers get to read slush and discover first hand why editors don't want to.
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Dennis