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Now, if you're a very popular author, you could probably do very well financially with just ebooks, since so many people would buy them. But it would still be far less people than those who buy physical copies. Certainly the growing popularity of ebooks, and the shrinking sales of pbooks, is making a self-published ebook author increasingly viable, but it's not equivalent to being professionally published yet. Quote:
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And if your time is so precious and worth money, why the hell use that time to write? There's a thousand other things you can do with that time to make money. Writing is a long and sometimes thankless process. Hoping that the ten plus years and million plus words you put down on paper just to learn the craft will someday, maybe, if you're lucky enough and fit into a mould that someone else (other than the reader) thinks you fit into, is a lottery dream. Writing isn't a career (evil nasty word invented by soulless people) but a vocation. You don't get into this because you want to make a quick buck, there's nothing quick about it. You do this because you have to, because you're driven to create. Money isn't even a secondary concern (unless you're Harlan Ellison who thinks he should be paid for coughing nearing a typewriter). |
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