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Well, you've just reduced the industry to, likely, 10 or so companies (and I'm probably being generous.) You've also entirely done away with the previously put forth solution of writers self-publishing. What's more, some of the companies closing up shop will likely be most of your favourites...

Understood. I've quoted you directly in the previous post to indicate my meaning and illustrate it's disingenuous to say I'm inventing things. There's also the tweet to illustrate my meaning: "Just saw an artist advertise full-colour illos for $15 on ENW. Told him he was undervaluing himself...

I'm not talking about drama. I'm taking about Morris presenting this article here as "just giving you some things to think about" perspective, but commenting on it elsewhere where's linked back to it with things like "Scary number of $0.01 per word rates out there. Don't work for $0.01 per word...

Well, having read what was being said on FB before you closed it, and in your Twitter feed, let's just say I disagree with what you have and have not been saying on the matter, as well as what others have been saying that constitutes a "tantrum." After all, when one looks at what you've said...

I was speaking in general terms, as in "here comes a publisher who thinks this article ignores quite a bit of important data and is saying as much."

The actual value of the labour, as opposed to the personal value to the writer, is defined by how much the resulting product can bring in. You cannot separate the product's earning potential from the expenses of creating it like one has nothing to do with the other. Again, "what my labour is...

Except here's where your argument fails. Utterly. The writer decides what their work is worth TO THEM. What a publisher is able to earn on a product actually decides what the work is worth in the market. Ultimately, it's going to be that market that decides the worth of a writer's work. A...

Uhuh. That's all seemingly all noble and everything, but as your quote to follow indicates, you've read at least one article on my blog, so ... ... did you also read the one where I outlined how people use free products as part of for-profit marketing? Such as to sell a particular agenda that...

Go back and re-read some of the things CardinalXimenes has said. He hasn't used the word "guarantee" -- just synonyms and statements to that effect. His guarantee is based on the fact that, hey, self-publishing costs nothing when you start out! You don't even consider your time involved as an...

Well ... there you have it. Of COURSE you'll always make a profit if you don't consider the time necessary to do something as an expense. However, considering one of the key points of this thread is "know how much your time is worth as a writer," I think you'll find you're wandering more than a...

Sure, it's an option. But keep in mind that I'm specifically responding to someone who is putting it out as an option that is guaranteed to be more profitable than freelancing even at terrible rates. My point has always been "um, no." Anyone can take their Word document as is and try selling it...

Actually, it's quite possible it won't. I've seen it happen. You can look through OBS and easily find companies that have numerous products that haven't sold a single copy. But no, that's not what I said. What I DID say was, in essence, that selling three or four products at a price of $4.99 at...

Exactly, Jeremy. Not every market is the same. Not every publisher's position or capabilities within the same market are going to be the same, no matter how skilled they are as a writer. The market is a fickle thing, and entering it as a publisher thinking "I've put my time in and I'm a good...

That's great and all, but ... ... it has nothing to do with the assumptions you're making about the general terms you've proposed. Well, let me correct that. I think it has to do with the assumptions you're making but not in the way you mean. I think it's quite obvious that because you've been...

When you initially say "but anybody capable of using a word processor's "print to PDF" function can get a few nibbles off DTRPG" as an illustration that anyone can make a profit at self-publishing, I don't believe you do know the difference between profit and making a sale. "can and will"...

Incorrect. Making a sale and getting money back is not "profit." "Profit" is the point where incoming money surpasses outbound. As I said, the idea that "just about anybody with a pulse can do that" is a false one. Sure, just about anyone who can put a product together can SELL a few copies of...

Because even knowing how to put a product together isn't the same as knowing how to market and sell it. It certainly isn't the same as being able to offer product to an established customer base. Product on the shelf (even when that shelf is virtual) =/= sales and, subsequently, money in...

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