| Re: Publish and be damned
Readers all have different needs - are served by different markets. What we read and enjoy as 16 year olds is probably very different than as 32 year olds. It's different literary markets.
But if Eddings had vanity published, would anyone have ever heard of him? Would you have been able to enjoy his stories when you were younger?
The survival of the fittest is something of a conceit on my part - it is simply the observation that it seems to be those most driven who get through - and that's for a range of industries. But vanity publishing offers a quick and easy way of achieving at least part of that goal - but without necessarily allowing for the continuing hard work to get the writing out to a wider audience.
Just my personal 2c, though. |