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But it can become known/popular much faster, I would assume.

• chipotle_coyote 8y ago
  That would be my assumption, too, although it'd be interesting to try to find data to confirm that. Books (picking the field I know the most about) could still sell really well and really quickly back in the "old days"; reviews often came out in advance of the book, bookstores could take pre-orders, and so on. I don't have any real data about how the "old way" balances out against the "new way."
  • _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
    That's true. But the audiences are surely much bigger now. (Both gross population and literacy would have been lower.)