I'm about halfway done writing my first book. However, lately I've been thinking maybe it's not even worth the effort, considering that my generation would rather play video games or get high than read books. I'll be lucky to get even a fraction of the readership from previous generations.
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Anonymous2014-12-01 5:41
yes, some people still read books.
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Anonymous2014-12-01 5:47
>>2 Would young people (late teens to mid 20s) pay money for books though? I think most people pirate these days.
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Anonymous2014-12-01 5:59
Hello fellow writer! Please tell me about what you write. I'm very interested in other authorially inclined cretins that lurk this forgot waste bin.
The works I'm most proud of are obviously a few dozen of the longer, more well received shitposts on /prog/(riders) going back several years. I've seen a couple of people list several of their favorite posts and had half of them be mine.
I have nothing published though. Other than what I've posted myself, I've written nine short stories that are probably crap, but were really fun to write. I also have two half-finished novels started for NaNoWriMo that are so littered with plotholes that they are basically unfixable. Of my earlier work, I have almost five spiral notebooks full of the adventures of an immortal loli alchemist and her incompetent loli vampire thief friend traveling the world, disrupting shit (both are my self inserts (it's from high school, pls don't judge)). Oh, I also have a 30K word love\porn story, but it's so pedophilic that if anyone were to read it I would be so ashamed that I will literally shoot myself (I keep no security on anything -- it's just another of the many notebooks cluttering the place -- so it is not completely improbably that I may have to do that). Of my many flaws as a writer, I think the worst is that I only want to write about little girls in larger works. It makes it difficult to show it to other people. But that's okay since it probably isn't any good anyway.
Good luck getting your book finished. Don't worry about readership. You just hang around losers and potheads, so you are bias. The publishing industry has never been bigger. Even if you look at stats that say that the percentage of readers has gone down (it hasn't though), with the huge growth in English-literate people, the absolute numbers have grown immensely. If you fail to get readership, you can't blame the number of readers. You might could blame the promoters, a saturated market, or yourself though.
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Anonymous2014-12-01 8:55
>>4 Were you the one that posted the Sussman and Leah Culver fanfiction?
>>1 Honestly, try getting your book digitally published on Kindle and Nook and whatnot. People with these devices actually enjoy reading independent authors.
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Anonymous2014-12-01 9:50
I still read real books and purchase paper books.
I don't think I'd ever purchase an ebook (unless it had no DRM and I'm just sending the author money directly - definitely not giving a publishing house money for providing a file).
Some books I read have no ebook versions, and I still like paper books for some things, I can focus on them better, I like being able to read them without a computer.
I don't buy/read novels or fiction anything, the above refers to academic or instructional works, in my opinion the only books where the writers deserve compensation.
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Anonymous2014-12-01 10:21
>>4 Sometimes I wish I could be an open minded irl friend for some of you. I wouldn't judge you for your stories and I would appreciate them.
You can anonymously publish over tor or freenet, or get other people to seed it. Include a bitcoin address in the opening cover for donations. Even if your work is deemed illegal it wont be taken down. If your identity is attached, then you can offer it on a normal site with a paypal or something for donations. Or you can publish with kindle etc.
My preferred publishing method is to print a copy, staple it, and throw it off a very tall building.