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Ptolus Kickstarter Quotes Good Review from RPGsite, SJWs Make Them Take It Down

Started by RPGPundit, February 18, 2020, 05:05:10 PM

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Spinachcat

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March 07, 2020, 09:03:19 PM
The airport has stores which post the top 10 or top 20 bestsellers in both fiction and nonfiction sections. Regardless whether the airport sells any books, these are the books listed as the current bestsellers in the market. And these books don't look like NewPub because most have the recognizable names of OldPub houses on their spine.

I'm well aware Amazon owns the book business to the point of nigh-monopoly, but what I am not sure is what is selling on Amazon. How much of what is Amazon selling is NewPub vs. OldPub? AKA, in Amazon's Top 20 books being sold, what's the breakdown between NewPub and OldPub?

I don't see Hollywood abandoning OldPub because agents like to talk to agents, aka gatekeepers keep it behind the gates. Of course, if a NewPub book is successful, I could see agents reaching out to them in the future.

Also, my concern for NewPub long term is the lack of editors. OldPub (for all its drawbacks) used to have a good system where authors had their books edited and given notes to improve aspects. As editors don't work for free and NewPub has no advances, I see an issue where NewPub's noise-to-signal ratio could be worse than OldPub.
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