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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
I'll go and just quote myself:
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Quote-worthy indeed.
And you are right: there is too much concern over what roads are taken and not enough on the end point. For writers, the goal is to get the story to readers--for readers, to encounter new narratives. How the story gets to the reader matters way less than getting it before them.
And, for writers, how they make their money matters way less than making enough to support themselves and their craft with a reasonable surplus to justify the effort. As Ms Rusch continually points out, writing is as much a business as an avocation to most, and the business side does matter. (And history has shown that mixing emotion and business rarely leads to good results.)
Combine that with Signore Vitale's suggestion that the industry needs to focus on opportunity instead of spreading fear and discord and a way to survive the industry disruption becomes clear: look for ways to get the most books before the most readers in as many ways as possible.
Hopefully the sound and fury is just a temporary phase, cooler heads will prevail, and we can all get back to finding good reads.