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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3481152" data-attributes="member: 307"><p>While you may be right - since it is of course impossible to accurately predict the future, I think that you are wildly optimistic. There have been statements for years that web publishing will become big, that webzines will stand shoulder to shoulder equally with print magazines, and web publications will be accorded plenty of respect.</p><p></p><p>And, to date, it hasn't even come close. Because the web doesn't reach a large portion of the reading market as a significant means of transmitting material, and likely won't in our lifetimes. Sure, some writers have published books via the internet, usually to much ballyhoo, but the ones that people care about have already been successful print authors who are more or less "slumming" to see if the new medium will give them more publicity. Stephen King can get away with it because he has a track record of a hundred print titles behind him. Bob, the new guy, probably doesn't get much benefit out of web publishing. And in most cases, the material that has been published via the web has been intended to try to boost sales of the 'real" product - printed books.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In a coldly objective world, probably not. In reality, many potential customers and future publishers will assume it does. "Couldn't print a <em>real</em> book, huh? You must not be a <em>real</em> writer."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Like the House Rules forum on this site has? Now, don't get me wrong, the House Rules forum on this site is a great resource. But I don't see anyone citing stuff they put there as a writing credit. And I <em>really</em> don't see anyone taking them seriously if they did. I also don't see this changing - the ability to publish via the web is not really new, and attitudes concerning web-published material do not appear to have changed appreciably since it was introduced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 3481152, member: 307"] While you may be right - since it is of course impossible to accurately predict the future, I think that you are wildly optimistic. There have been statements for years that web publishing will become big, that webzines will stand shoulder to shoulder equally with print magazines, and web publications will be accorded plenty of respect. And, to date, it hasn't even come close. Because the web doesn't reach a large portion of the reading market as a significant means of transmitting material, and likely won't in our lifetimes. Sure, some writers have published books via the internet, usually to much ballyhoo, but the ones that people care about have already been successful print authors who are more or less "slumming" to see if the new medium will give them more publicity. Stephen King can get away with it because he has a track record of a hundred print titles behind him. Bob, the new guy, probably doesn't get much benefit out of web publishing. And in most cases, the material that has been published via the web has been intended to try to boost sales of the 'real" product - printed books. In a coldly objective world, probably not. In reality, many potential customers and future publishers will assume it does. "Couldn't print a [i]real[/i] book, huh? You must not be a [i]real[/i] writer." Like the House Rules forum on this site has? Now, don't get me wrong, the House Rules forum on this site is a great resource. But I don't see anyone citing stuff they put there as a writing credit. And I [i]really[/i] don't see anyone taking them seriously if they did. I also don't see this changing - the ability to publish via the web is not really new, and attitudes concerning web-published material do not appear to have changed appreciably since it was introduced. [/QUOTE]
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