Comments on: On The Inevitablity of Self-Marketing https://booksquare.com/on-the-inevitablity-of-self-marketing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=on-the-inevitablity-of-self-marketing Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Queenann https://booksquare.com/on-the-inevitablity-of-self-marketing/#comment-165513 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:49:04 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2007/04/03/2352/#comment-165513 He’s absolutely right. in the modern day there are so many writers and so few book slots – and books stay on the shelves for so short a time – that writers have to do everything they can to ensure their books sell.

Brian – art isn’t free because artists have to eat. On the other hand, the internet provides such an outlet that an author might be able to sustain themselves the way radio and network television traditionally did – through advertising.

Only time will tell.

]]> By: Brian Hadd https://booksquare.com/on-the-inevitablity-of-self-marketing/#comment-165510 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:09:15 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2007/04/03/2352/#comment-165510 The BookEnds blog has a similar post on this economic reality. I don’t know why art isn’t free, but until it is recessing from the marketplace isn’t going to do much for abstraction.

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