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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'm not a reader of The Federalist. My opinions and theirs aren't likely to jibe very often. But that article makes them look really bad. It's full of leaps in logic and opinion that the author doesn't bother to back up with examples. I can read an article that I don't agree with and still see their point if the article is well written and researched.
I also don't think that a conflict between indie authors and big publishers must necessarily be due to political differences.
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All you have to do is look on Amazon at some of the authors listed in the article to know this has nothing to do with political views or the sad puppies movement, other than perhaps the same clique that reacted to sad puppies reacted to them.
One of the extremely profitable business models in the indie movement is to act like some of the old pulp fiction writers did - i.e. identify a target audience and write a whole lot of inexpensive stories that appeals to that audience. It's actually not that different from what makes for a successful blog, except you get your money from the audience rather than from advertisement. You just have to keep putting out fresh material so you don't fall off your target audience's scope. Those target audience can be the psuedo romance urban paranormal crowd or the gun happy zombie apocolypse crowd or anything in between.