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Originally Posted by Charbax
You know very well that the bulk of the books and newspapers industry revenue goes to huge corporations. Niche authors are not read by anyone in the current system and are not viable business for a moms and paps small niche publishing company.
Retailers, distributors, publishers, editors must go. We all know they are completely irrelevant.
Advance payment, publicity and marketing, lawyers whatever else is also completely irrelevant with the advent of Web technologies.
Advance money is managed by Web 2.0 quite simply by proven track record of popularity, quality and number of fans. And that Web 2.0 money is going to be financed through a tax that is much more efficient and which basically is the same as a global standardized subscription plan.
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I presume that you intended all of the above to be either prefaced with or followed by a great big IMHO, yes? In case that acronym isn't familiar to anyone out there, it stands for
In
My
Humble
Opinion.
Anyway... Here comes some more of my NOT so humble opinion.
You wrote: "Niche authors are not read by anyone in the current system and are not viable business for a moms and paps small niche publishing company."
Well, anyone who write SF, Fantasy, Romance, Western, or any of the other "genre" fiction fall right in your "small niche publishing company" dis. And yes, actually, those books are read by people in the current system, and are a viable business both for "moms and paps small niche publishing company" and for much larger businesses. You'll find Baen books in the SF/Fantasy section of any bookstore in the US that's large enough to have such a section. Ditto for books from Tor, etc. Heck -- they're even in airport news stands and (some) grocery stores. Businesses with national distribution have certainly grown beyond the "moms and paps" stage.
As for the idea that "we all know" that retailers distributors, publishers and editors are completely irrelevant. Hmmm... I've provided you with examples (admittedly anecdotal, but verifiable and indicative). You've responded with assertions of what "we all know."
"Advance payment [...] is completely irrelevant with the advent of Web technologies." Beautiful assertion there. I've provided with at least one example where they were not irrelevant. In your other thread, I've given another (Lee & Miller and their "tip jar" novels). How about some actual examples that illustrate your point. Not assertions about how wonderful everything "is going to be" in some nebulous future -- but rather
real examples now.
Your last paragraph (starting with "Advance money is managed by Web 2.0 quite simply by proven track record of popularity, quality and number of fans.") seems to be more unfounded assertion. I'm sure that Steve Jordan and Jeffrey Carver (both are authors who participate here at mobileread) are eager to hear from you exactly how and where they can get their advances for their next books based on their "proven track record of popularity, quality and number of fans." Or did you mean to suggest that is how things will be -- or perhaps "
may be" -- in some future that hasn't arrived yet?
I eagerly and respectfully await your real-world examples, complete with authors, web-sites, and actual (not hypothetical) results.
Xenophon