| Re: Are Books Dead and Can Authors Survive? ("...me, I'm a realist..." went the goblin, having read through this thread now, adding "...isn't it rather obvious that by the time I had got someone to read even one line of my blog or downloadable pdf file ebook, just think of how many more people will have turned up on forumland as reader/writers in their own right, so yes, I too, could do yesterday's way for yesterday's market, marginalized under a law of diminishing returns, or I could somehow adapt my writing style to what readers are actually reading and where they are too, but what are they actually reading and where are those readers then, well actually they're here you're reading it, so welcome to your new readership, where before you dismiss me or it or them out of hand, remember that you level that dismissal at yourself in doing so, for you are just one of us MYAHAHAHA...") |