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Today's blog is up at Book View Cafe:
Gatekeeping in the World of Ebooks | Book View Cafe Blog
Excerpt:
What’s wrong with a situation in which anyone who’s thrown together 80K or even 50K or 150K words, formats it, puts it up as a Kindle edition, promotes it all over the social media sites, and sells a bunch of copies (or a whole big bunch of copies)? Isn’t that how the market works, by giving readers what they’re looking for?
The problem I have with this scenario, being enacted thousands of times over the various epublishing venues, is not so much the flood of unreadable or barely-readable books making it increasingly difficult to find the ones I want. It’s the disservice it does to the newer writer.
Each one of us has a unique perspective, a precious voice that is ours alone. As Edith Layton said, “No one else in the wide world, since the dawn of time, has ever seen the world as you do, or can explain it as you can. This is what you have to offer that no one else can.”
Gatekeeping in the World of Ebooks | Book View Cafe Blog
Excerpt:
What’s wrong with a situation in which anyone who’s thrown together 80K or even 50K or 150K words, formats it, puts it up as a Kindle edition, promotes it all over the social media sites, and sells a bunch of copies (or a whole big bunch of copies)? Isn’t that how the market works, by giving readers what they’re looking for?
The problem I have with this scenario, being enacted thousands of times over the various epublishing venues, is not so much the flood of unreadable or barely-readable books making it increasingly difficult to find the ones I want. It’s the disservice it does to the newer writer.
Each one of us has a unique perspective, a precious voice that is ours alone. As Edith Layton said, “No one else in the wide world, since the dawn of time, has ever seen the world as you do, or can explain it as you can. This is what you have to offer that no one else can.”
