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I thought about Amazon for self publishing, and that’s a good point. I could be wrong (and would be happy to be wrong), but it feels like most of the people in
by hairofadog 6y ago
I thought about Amazon for self publishing, and that’s a good point. I could be wrong (and would be happy to be wrong), but it feels like most of the people in the making-a-living-but-not-striking-it-rich group there are turning out high-volume junk. When I think of the “middle class” of the arts, I think of the Duplass Brothers, for example, or the Blumhouse horror studio, where their goal seems to be to allow talented artists to experiment and make quality, if low-budget, media. My very possibly wrong impression of Amazon self publishers is that their success strategy is to churn out as much serialized content as fast as possible.
- ghaff 6y agoThe reality is that making a comfortable five USD figures annually by publishing books whether self-publishing or going through a traditional publisher probably puts you at the very top of the curve. Yes, and I assume at least some of the more successful self-published authors on Amazon are churning out material they can create a lot of quickly. I also assume they do a lot of marketing and have a reliable fan base in most cases.
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- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoIt's not wrong at all, and you'll find that strategy being discussed on Amazon creator forums. It's the difference between product and culture. Culture makes you think, changes your world view, surprises you, challenges you, and is driven by imagination. Product fills a gap, fuels a transaction, and is driven by cash. There used to be more of a balance, but now the scales are tilted heavily towards product.
- edmundsauto 6y agoIs the ratio of product/culture the right metric? If the amount of product increased 100x but the amount of culture 10x, are we really worse off?