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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Agreed. An income from writing is nice, I won't deny that. But it should never, ever be the primary reason for doing something. Too many people have lost that vision, always shooting for what makes them richest, not what makes them happiest. I've seen people who collect garbage who love doing it and are happy with what little they make. Well said, Moejoe.
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And I'll say this again, I like earning a living from my books. It's sort of a monetary thank you for all my hard work and dedication. But if I never, ever earned a dime off my books, so long as people were entertained and loved the books, I'd be happy. That's the kind of attitude you need to succeed in writing. Success is not about how many copies you sold, or how much you earned, but rather how well you did your job, and how happy your readers are when they're done with your book. That's true success.
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My sentiments exactly. It'd be nice to pay the power bill with my time at a computer writing, or doing anything creative with said computer. But is that my only reason for writing? No. It never has been. Probably never will be.
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Personally, I'm hoping for something like a public version of Amazon's recommendation system. I could train it, as I have Amazon's, by telling it that I liked Lacing Up for Murder and hated Carpe Demon, and it would cross-check to see what other users who felt the same way about those books also liked. There are systems like that for music, etc., already. Someone just has to figure out how to make one work for ebooks, and operate it independently of the content providers. I had some hope for Google doing so once, back before they realized that to run a multi-billion-dollar company, you do in fact have to at least approach being evil. But whoever does it, I think that will be the critical factor.
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LibraryThing tries to do something similar. And I think there may be one or two others out there, but for an indie or a self pub'd author, you may need to add yourself or have an ISBN.