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It's true of any technology, art or form of expression
that requires awareness to make note of the work. No
distribution business escapes the need for the marketing
budget. We can occasionally get rid of the lawyers.
The web changed the medium for digital distribution.
It didn't change the rules of location, practice and
persistence. Ya still gotta "stand proud, talk loud,
and gather a crowd".
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Cagle [mailto:kurt.cagle@gmail.com]
I think you're seeing the result of that in the explosion of
self-published books, though admittedly the ones that are doing the
best are the ones in which the authors are also willing to put in the
work to market and promote the books. Right now, self-publishing is
still something of a ghetto, but I think this tends to be the case
with any new technology in which the traditional gatekeepers are
bypassed (think of the stigma that computer graphic artists had from
their blue-line and rubber cement crowd).
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