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Books only require the efforts of one person for a relatively short period of time and only a shoestring budget and as a result there's an unfathomable number o
by mostlylurks 3y ago
Books only require the efforts of one person for a relatively short period of time and only a shoestring budget and as a result there's an unfathomable number of books to choose from, and the technology required to manufacture books is so simple that any number of large companies deciding to opt out of paper books is not going to stop them from being made. Even if major publishers and stores stop selling physical books, these factors mean that nothing short of literally outlawing paper books could make them a thing of the past.
- rlonstein 3y ago> Books only require the efforts of one person for a relatively short period of time Have you actually tried writing a book that you'd want to read? I think there are very few authors who just knock one out like you imply.
- mostlylurks 3y agoYes, and I know that it's far more difficult than you might initially expect. I wasn't trying to portray the process as easy or trivial in terms of the effort required, my point was more about the fact that the barriers to entry are sufficiently low that you don't need millions (or hundreds of millions) of dollars, an entire team (or dozens of teams) of workers to handle different tasks, or even decades of work to make a top-tier book happen. You only really need the author themself [0], so there's little risk of there not being a wide variety of literature to choose from even if megacorporations decide to lock their offerings behind DRM-infested ecosystems. [0]: Editors are very useful, but you could feasibly avoid utilizing them, and they're also not so expensive as to be out of the range of what an individual person could afford to hire, so my point stands even if you take them into consideration.