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Originally Posted by Hitch
Which I, and most of us here, do. We pay for the books. My argument was simply that asking me to pay, say, $9.99 for a new author's book, when it hasn't been vetted or comes flying at me over the transom, effectively (KDP) is not going to fly. Look at The Martian--basically free, for his first however-many-thousands of fans, on his blog. You cannot judge the quality of the effort by the sales price, today. That idea has been completely stamped out for the brand-new writer by the democratization of publishing, effectively. For those that have pubbed a few books, it's more appropos.
Sure, this. I mean, when I started out making ebooks, I certainly wasn't charging what "experts" (whatever THAT was back then, ha!) were. I started out at a "learning" rate and worked my way up.
We should view self-publishing as what it is--an old way of training/learning. It's an apprenticeship to journeyman to master process. The difference now is instead of those folks being witnessed behind writing group doors and critique group doors and all those other doors, we're seeing it up close and personal. Many will never--never--get out of the apprenticeship stage, but that's what it's for. Culling. And their pay is commensurate with where they are on that ladder.
Hitch
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I don't disagree with you too much . I was just saying that your interpretation of the meaning of the phrase "support the authors" is somewhat different that what I mean when I say it.
I will say that there are certainly some here who apparently don't feel any particular obligation or desire to pay more than the "new indie author trying to build an audience" rate, even if most authors are unable to make a living at that price.