Publish or be damned (2013)

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41 pointsbennesvig5 comments

It is a very good thing that the step to do self publishing has come down far enough that regular authors can do it without any special resources.

Sure, publishers provide editing and marketing that will allow the authors to reach the big markets but promising independents that self publish will still make enough of a dent by word of mouth that they will be picked up by bigger ones.

They babble into hand-held twit machines about that cool email of the woman being bummed by a wolf.

I think you've been downvoted as Nathan Barley is probably not well known here. It's quite relevant, though, with Dan Ashcroft being a sort of less fleshed out, modern Ignatius J. Reilly. Anyone interested in the meeting point of Internet, media, and hipster culture owes it to themselves to check out Nathan Barley sometime, it's hilarious and depressing at the same time. (Trivia: The Web site mentioned in the show is still up at http://trashbat.co.ck/)

Yes - [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEQ4F4PRzUg

Was just the first thing that came to mind when I saw a link to The Gate website.

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