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And I'm sure the 90% that vanishes will be the 90% you want gone. What I'm curious about is why you think Amazon's actions will drive away those creating crap
by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
And I'm sure the 90% that vanishes will be the 90% you want gone.
What I'm curious about is why you think Amazon's actions will drive away those creating crap for the sake of money. When I look through the Kindle Store the thing that always strikes me is how many knocked together short books written by people with no great expertise there are. To me that's the main current impact of Amazon's democratization of publishing.
There's a very good question to be asked about why the current publishing elite should be the gate keepers to who gets published and who doesn't, however you don't have to browse much of Amazon to see the impact on quality when there is no gate keeper at all and, to me at least, it doesn't look like a utopia of art for art's sake.
- nsomaru 12y agothe downward pressure on prices will dissuade people who are writing with remuneration as a primary driving source of output. that said, that doesn't solve the problem of discovery, although it does alleviate it a bit. that's the logic, feel free to educate me :)
- Tyrannosaurs 12y agoLove of writing doesn't make the time needed to write a novel and it doesn't feed families. Surely the quality of the output rather than the purity of the intent should be the driving metric? Weary journalists knocking out a book to order are realisticall better than 95% of enthusiastic amateurs. Besides, most writers are notoriously penny less. Why do you think anyone is going into it for the money?