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Canuck sf god Robert Sawyer has gotten himself into a bit of a dustup with some author types over an assertion that self-publishing is a waste of time for authors. SFSignal, the best SciFi blog I’ve read, has the call and the links.
In rejecting an impatient author who had sent a ms for his consideration, Sawyer wrote:
So, best of luck elsewhere. All that said, though, one writer to another, I think going the route of online serialization and POD are mistakes you will regret in the years to come. Online publishing and POD are a waste of time; you’ll have fewer than a hundred readers, I’m willing to wager, in either format. But it’s up to you.
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July 25th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Don’t most self-published authors normally have sales of fewer than a hundred copies? Seems to me like Mr Sawyer is just being honest. It’s possible that this author is being totally ignored by the publishing industry and could sell thousands of copies of his or her book by POD; it’s equally possible that the publishing industry is ignoring his or her book because it’s not quite ready yet and needs to be worked on before any publisher would seriously consider it.