Comments on: The Best Seller List: Myth and Reality http://createworklive.com/2009/05/29/the-best-seller-list-myth-and-reality/ A Blog About Surviving and Thriving in the Creative Economy Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stephanie Golden http://createworklive.com/2009/05/29/the-best-seller-list-myth-and-reality/#comment-1055 Sat, 30 May 2009 21:31:19 +0000 http://createworklive.com/?p=1208#comment-1055 For me Lynn Viehl’s article was the end of fantasies about making a living by writing books–or at least through conventional book publishing. Especially the kind of book I’d like to write once again–what I think of as a think-book, that investigates facts and experience in the service of developing ideas–doesn’t have much of a chance unless you’re already well known. And even well-known writers do have a day job, for the most part.

Maybe the publishing industry will recover and figure out a new revenue model (maybe even one that doesn’t screw the authors).

Or maybe a model will emerge that enables us to sell writing, in one form or another, online as an e-book, blog with ad revenue, who knows? Amazon now has a service that lets you upload a PDF of a book to be formatted for Kindle.

At any rate I don’t want to be a fuddy-duddy who stays stuck in the forms of the past. I’m willing to adapt if it means I could somehow write that book and get it out there. Maybe that’s the moral for me.

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