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Originally Posted by cancelx
I didn't know intellect was merely gauged by the content one reads, or writes for that matter.
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How one writes it may be a reflection on the writer's intellect. But that's not what I was saying, and you know it. There is a certain category of material which is normally considered "intellectual" -- art, literature, etc. -- and a certain category which is not -- interviews with people famous for being famous, for example. In general -- not in specifics, but in general -- people in MobileRead usually demonstrate a preference for the former. This is probably because the people who are eager to find out about the latest Hollywood news spend more of their time on websites that feature that news rather than hanging around here.
Would you go to a celebrity fan site and ask the people there whether they thought you could make a go of selling access to a blog of reviews of classic literature and maybe some living author interviews? How about going to a Mac support site and asking if they thought there was a market for your Windows tech blog? Sure, there's some overlap between any of those categories, but what you're proposing requires a very precisely targeted market, and most bibliophiles aren't a whole lot better market for celebrity interviews than Mac users are for Windows tips.
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Man... really? is this the kind of crowd that this guy suggests...self-promoting one's intellect?
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Not anywhere except inside your head.
I try to be helpful by pointing out that your target market may not be this one, and you come back by deliberately mis-writing my name, twisting everything I say so you can mock it, and slinging general-purpose rudeness? Perhaps you've mistaken MobileRead for /b/?
And don't worry, you won't be accused of self-promoting your intellect.
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oh well, back to making a living....
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And, by implication, the rest of us don't?
We have everyone here from students to executives, writers to publishers. Implying that you are the only person here who is actually making a living -- and by extension that we're all full of rot -- is not a good way to get a friendly conversation going.