[arjunaaqa]

Modern authors should publish on their own websites,

And spend 6-12 months time before launch in marketing and talking on social media.

We need more empowered authors.

[Miraste]

Modern authors may be forced to spend too much time in the sludge pits of social media for any hope of financial success, but we don't need to pretend that's being "empowered."

Also, publishing on your own website and nowhere else will not work. Such is the modern age of platforms.

[cardanome]

Yeah but it sucks that these days more and more professions require that you market yourself.

It would be great if people could just write and live from that.

[tornadofart]

I genuinely hate that. DoNt oNlY bE a dEvELoPER bUT AlsO a TeChniCAl WriTeR aND bUiLD yOuR pErSoNaL bRAnd ... uh no sorry I have a life

[daedrdev]

There are just so many books published today that there is no guarantee of any amount of readership by just releasing a book.