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Date: 5 Jan 2025 23:04:53 GMT
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 13:12:16 +0100, D wrote:

> I spoke with a science fiction author on a mailinglist I'm a member of,
> and he said, for the love of god, never write a book because you expect
> to earn money on it. Apparently it is not the royal road to riches.

For every Martin or Clancy there are many starving authors. One of the 
benefits of outlets like Amazon/Kindle is an author can self publish and 
possibly make a few dollars rather than the vanity press model that was a 
dollar sink. From a reader's viewpoint it means I have a selection of 
authors I enjoy that never would have appeared in the conventional 
publishing industry.

Amazon Prime offers a selection of free books every month. I've found a 
few gems but the selections are heavily oriented toward chick lit and not 
very good. I don't know how well the attempted jump start works. I do 
better with the 'because you read...' suggestions.