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Just so you know, you have "folks" from YT pruning comments and replys here in real time. Hooray Dystopia!
Here is the deal Daniel. Someone has to litigate DMCA tackdowns, but no one ever litigate. You clearly have a case, and if *you*, a really feisty CZcamsr does not litigate, no one will, and the system will stay broken. Someone has to fight for the system to change. You are entitled to Damages from Netflix for a bad faith DMCA notice (17 USC 512(f)). You win and everybody win - that's how Precedents works.
The companys would get scared from other suits and Class Action, which will make them step back from excessive DMCA notice.
Daniel I understand your point, bit I believ in this situation celebrties like you need to put not popular booka on spotligyt, and while your audience engagement is from peopylar reada , monthly indie or less popular titles like web novels will not hurt , atleast you can do your contribution.
I mean you got to christoper rochio when it was already a rage in booktube. I would rather want you to discover the next big thing in fantaay /booktube space .
So Pilates' phase is already over, the new trend is "animal moves"...got it.
Somehow doubt it will make any difference to my (personal ) back issues...
Rebel Moon 2 was so awful Netflix had to target your career rather than let the public be warned 😭
Or maybe just dont be a hater 🤷
@@RevJ7 yeah god forbid the channel that reviews and critiques media gives their honest opinion on media they disliked 😐
@@RevJ7worst take
@@RevJ7Rebel Moon deserves to be hated, in fact hating it and telling everyone how bad it is is a good thing. Let people see what happens when fascists like Zack Snyder try to make art.
@@snapgabI don't like his work. Snyder is not a fascist though. Don't make the term meaningless.
Has Netflix never heard there's no such thing as bad publicity? Their best bet to salvage Rebel Moon is to cultivate it becoming a film people can make fun of. Hate watching is still watching and at this point they need people watching.
Or just admit they're not bad and that you're a hater cultist? Idk 🤷
@@RevJ7 but they are, and I'm pretty sure anyone who says otherwise is a Cultists of Snyder. Rebel Moon is literally several better properties stapled together poorly and fails at basic story telling.
"No such thing as bad publicity, just spell the name correctly ;) " -Showbiz Proverb ; Lots of folks will unironically "ironically" watch because "it's so bad", or out of sheer morbid curiosity. Everything someone mentions the movie without being paid, "they" win.
I don't do that but I agree that it is a viable method.
Thank you so much for sharing my work. I really appreciate it! We're all just a bunch of artists trying to make it in the world! 🥰
Absolutely! Your write up was simply brilliant.
Thank you for the shoutout, Daniel! I, Christopher, and the artists will do our best with The Sun Eater artworks, including Demon in White! ;)
The copyright claim system on CZcams needs to be fixed. The fact that netflix can just decide they are right is so messed up
I agree, but CZcams won't change as long as the DMCA is in place.
I might be biased here but there is something wholesome and beautiful about going to a book store and seeing all the books in the shelf and physically turning it's pages, might be weird thing to say but still.
100% agree. I wish I had more time to do this still. One of the drawbacks of ereaders no doubt.
You're absolutely right, but in this economy there's something not-so-wholesome about ponying up $20+ for the new hardcover from a new author that I'm going to finish in less than 2 days, especially when I can spend $7.99 (or less) for the Kindle version. Sure, I'll pony up for the hardcovers of great books that I want to display on my bookshelf, but that's after (and often years after) I already have read and loved something.
I love book shops. I love that more people can get my books and that they can take a realistically unlimited library with them on holiday and even if they drop it in a hot tub, no books were harmed, a lot more. But yes, if I ever did a Sanderson level of business, my house would mostly consist of an extremely fancy library, with one room dedicated to Pratchett and another for books friends could 'borrow' and touch without permission. ;)
@@HeavyTopspin that is fair, that is why I borrow physical books from my uni's library and only buy books that I love like dune series.
I still love going through a bookstore. There's less "books for you because it's advertised" and just looking for a cover that looks intriguing. I've also seen some of my favorite indie authors in the stores and bought my favorites to display and lend out. (I gotta get others hooked on the books I love).
I love how I’m afraid you’ve got dragons is just sitting there in the middle of a sea of Neon Ghosts.
Publishing houses USED to guarantee at least some quality regarding spelling, grammar, and a somewhat decent plot, now they don't even do that.
Another problem is that they don't promote new authors at all. The author have to do all the heavy lifting for them to the publishers to even consider them, and at that point, what's even the point to sign a contract with them?
Even authors who sell well and promote well can’t ensure these trad publishers and booksellers will even create quality products.
A special edition from Waterstones for an author was without doubt the poorest quality book I’ve seen in over 50 years.
Waterstones didn’t care, the sale was prepaid by me so they even said replacement copies had the same issue !
Man, thank you so much for supporting independent authors the way you do. It has been so frustrating in the past trying to get booktubers to pay any attention to us. I've been told by several of them that they don't talk about those who are self-published, which is SO CRAZY because every CZcamsr is SELF-PUBLISHED! Even many bloggers wouldn't pay attention to us. That is getting fixed now, and I truly believe that you have been a big part of that change.
A Fictional Escapist, a small aussie book tuner is predominantly indie. Plus Kris does beta reads for some authors, so he knows his stuff.
I love watching his finds each month, and his video on what indie is about to release. He has great talks with authors too, always great questions.
He is a fav I trust
Thanks for the shout out Daniel! Hope you like the book.
Not that you're gonna see this, I just wanted to say I absolutely loved Murder at Spindle Manor!
@@kieto9663 I did see it, and thank you very much!
I'm GenX and have been reading steadily about a book a month for the past 30 years so I've gone from browsing the bookstores to googling "best of the year/decade" lists, to following various booktubers.
The issue I tend to have is that I don't know what I can trust online. Not trying to "throw shade" at anyone because it's just like any recommendation that you'd get from a fellow reader, everyone has slightly different tastes and what works for them may not work for me (Rage of Dragons and The Poppy War both being examples as I found them to be not that enjoyable while booktube seemingly loved them). But there's also the omnipresent question of "why is this person pushing this book? are they really unbiased if the publisher sent it to them for free?". This gets reinforced by the deluge of social media pushing things like Fourth Wing and any of the Sarah J Maas catalogue. Why???
There's nothing like going to a bookstore and browsing the shelves but for the last decade I've found it harder and harder to find what I want to read (sci fi, fantasy, historical fic) because there are just a few authors that get pushed to the shelves. In the last few years it's actually become easier to find interesting titles in the YA section, and while the quality of those is fine there's definitely different tone to the writing. Also, any bookstores that are left are now half books/half other housewares and crap so I find myself going less and less. Almost all my browsing the shelves is online now.
Am I open to new reads from smaller publishers and self pubs? Sure... as long as I can find them. I don't read e-books or audio books, I want a paperback in hand, and some of these are almost impossible to find. Or if I do, they're ridiculously priced (Gunmetal Gods and Promise of Blood, I'm looking at you).
What I miss most is the disappearance of the used book store. There were several in our area, now there's just one and it's a drive to get to. I could almost always find something second hand that was preferable over anything new, with the advantage of being half the cost.
Oh, and don't get me started on the whole Broken Binding/Owlcrate/Fairyloot/limited edition/book box thing. Sure, some are nice to look at and I wouldn't say no if I was gifted one, but this trend is being entirely driven by social media and FOMO.
Discovery is almost the entire problem with selling your books. Its not that people don't want them, it's getting the people who like them to see them, hence the importance of covers so people can judge the contents.
Booktubers are a useful tool for anyone looking for books I agree, and Bookbub can be worth checking out (as in, sign up for their email in your genre). I miss when Amazon had a page for each genre that highlighted new books honestly and had some human editing going on, that was quite nice (although I'm sure it was a very limited selection). What I do with reviews for film and TV is find people with similar tastes to mine so that they aren't going to hate say, Batman just because it's Batman, but instead because Nolan made terrible choices about minor things like, how to represent Bane and who he was in the story (a henchman? Bane is a henchman? Pfft).
I am very lucky to have a used bookstore in my area, but it is part of a "chain" (2 locations and a warehouse) so I suppose that's how they found their footing. I also have a 2nd and Charles in my area as well, but as you say, half the damn place is a funko pop dump lol. I sometimes get lucky and find something new and exciting but yeah, without those two places I'd be stuck with online only. Or thirft store luck.
“Homeless, naked, and without a phone” I love how you made it seem without a phone is just as big or bigger for you 😂
I've been making an effort to shout out Indie books lately on my channel. There are some real gems out there that really deserve a spotlight all their own. Hearing about how the publishing world is doing worse than I thought it a bit disheartening, but it does make help understand why I haven't been getting any hits from literary agents.
Awesome research as always dude!
@KrimsonRogue Yup. I’ve been noticing a lot of great indie series out there. Cradle, Songs of Chaos are two noteworthy series I’ve liked a lot. For me, the indie space there’s more flexibility. Not everything is good but you aren’t hammered by a publishers attempts to lean so hard on trends and sensitivity reader trends we’ve been seeing.
I’m a self published author but it makes me sad that my books won’t have the future I envisioned for them, and there is so much extra labor in doing it yourself.
CZcamsr: comments reasonable opinions on a bad netflix movie
Netflix: lets block him before he makes us look bad
CZcamsr: "hey youtube. Look what Netflix did to me"
Netflix: ...shit
Half a million subscribers, we can't let them get a bad opinion of Netflix product. What is this Streisand effect?
@@pattheplanter never knew of this effect. Love it. Fully agree it fits perfectly for this situation.
Publisher news like this always gets me nervous about writing out my own books.
Right? Like, I have to be at least an e-celeb now to publish traditionally. I might as well start writing CZcams essay scripts instead. So, that MAYBE one day, I'll have a successful enough following and the opportunity to publish a successful book. It's so ridiculous.
It shouldn't. People are still buying books. Elle's articles misrepresents what was said at court. Last year alone the US bought a billion books, new. This doesn't account for ebook, audiobook, used book, library book, and global book sales. Not every author will be successful but don't let a what if stop you from writing your story.
I love how someone like Ryan Cahill still kills it and does it all on his own. He helps show you don’t need a huge publisher to make an impact on this genre and space
i like how you have ""im afraid you've got dragons" standing out
The $5 footlong was implemented like 15 years ago when the rest of the sandwiches were around $6.50. Then as inflation increased the prices of everything the $5 footlong became the biggest loss leader and all Subways struggled so they got rid of it.
When it comes to the celebrities aspect of book sales, I know there was a British Book Awards short list for nonfiction and the majority of the list were celebrity books, only one was written by a historian.
And this is why I am terrified of ever being able to publish a book. I am not American, I don't have a platform and do not want to do all my marketing. If people in the US are already having so much trouble getting published, what can a person from a small country in Europe even hope for.
History is cyclical in nature. What we're seeing today with Amazon and Audible has happened before. In the 70's and 80's the primary source of genre fiction for many was the Science Fiction Book Club (or it's variants for mysteries and such). Authors were faced with the same kind of 'take our prices or miss out on a huge chunk of the audience" situation.
I have been fortunate enough to be published with a traditional publisher, and it was really surprising that they did not have a marketing plan, nor sales goals for the book. The sales and publicity has largely fallen on me and learning how to do it myself. I was grateful for my amazing editors but the lack of support was really a big let down for getting my fist book published.
As someone trying to write their first book right now... this sucks. Being an author has been my dream and this feels like... just another 'that's just a dream' thing that's come along...
I was someone who spent many afternoons in bookstores as a child, teenager and young adult... Then, they disappeared one by one. I tried reigniting that sense of finding a book off a shelf by visiting my library, but lost interest in books for about 20 years. Occasionally I tried to get back into reading, but it hasn't been the same without being able to pick up the physical copy, feel the cover, read the synopsis, flip through the pages and see the font and formatting inside. I'm a tactile person. I've recently started setting a small goal for one book a month and it snowballed into one per week because I was eager to read, but couldn't afford anything more. Without being able to afford my habit of purchasing a physical book anymore, I switched to my kindle and a subscription to consume three books a week. I lost interest... again... trying to keep it charged and from hurting my eyes with the continuous screen viewing.
Anyways, that's my two cents on the last 40 years of my life reading books that I've been doing. We need bookstores to buy books. I personally need a physical book in my hands but am poor and can't afford them.
I'm writing a novel now and hope that I will publish soon.
Im old enough to have been a reader pre-internet boom. Granted this was while I was a kid/teen. During this time I was Broke, so 90% of my reading was via the library. I would usually either ask the librarians for suggestions or just spend a rainy day in the library reading the first 20 or so pages of books trying to find something that captured me. Usually based on my afinity with authot, and how cool the cover art was.
Now I just go by word of mouth from folks in various book spaces or goodreads.
The news you mention about the industry finally confirms what I have been sensing from the sheer number of trad pub titles that have left me feeling completely unsatisfied. Much like Hollywood it feels mostly derivative, formulaic, watered down, and not particularly well written sameness. As an author whose been at this for a minute in creating my voice, it also explains why so many agents turn my stuff down (must not be samey enough). Completely disillusioned with trad pub at this point. Indie publishing shows me a lot more promise, and I can't wait to buy your book!
16:11 The one thing I’ll say about the finals studio making a GoT MMO is that they’re already using AI voicing for The Finals, all of the voicing from the “announcers” in game that are calling out “plays” or whatever are all AI so they can be adjusted any time, I hope to god they don’t push more AI into a big MMO around GoT..
I truly hope they make that audiobook immersive, with music and sound effects!
I don't think the publishers are the only guilty there. Every single booktok video is pushing the same books. Very few streamers actually take risks in reading and pushing books that are not bestsellers..
A big side effect of a place mostly populated by a young demographic, especially one geared to only reward trendy content
It's wild to me that celebrity books is considered desirable in the publishing industry. Do people really like reading those kinds of books? I have never come across a book written by a celebrity and found myself wanting to read it.
I am WAITING for that kickstarter to open!
I really appreciated your publishing segment. I saw that article but haven’t had a chance to sit down and digest it. I grew up in the 90s and there have definitely been some marked changes in bookstores since then (I remember the thrill of going into B Dalton’s in the mall). But some things do have me excited for the future. More and more indie bookstores are popping up near me, ones that purposefully try to seek out indie authors.
Good job Netflix, like it's not already hard find a reason to subscribe to them. I haven't been with them for years now. No reason to.
Thanx Daniel, you're my main source of reading material :D
I think some of the shopping trip bit you did highlighted a part of the problem you didn't intend it too. That being the cost of living at the moment pretty much world-wide. People aren't buying authors they don't know because they have less money to spend and there is a risk they won't enjoy it. But celebrities and influences *feel* like less of a risk because they feel like they do know them, even if they haven't read any of their writing before.
This is why, (I think) publishing houses expect so many new authors to do their own marketing and promotion - because it makes more sense to them as a business to promote the 1% of sales of 'larger' names rather than try to more evenly help all authors and have more of diverse revenue stream. I'm not saying I agree with this - I don't - but I can see why it is seen as a safer option. I also believe that it is costing us all because I know several authors who will never so social media (most of which is video based now) for reasons as varied as not wanting to expose their children to that life, to their content being likely to cause them trouble from bigots in their own community, to it being downright unsafe as they have a stalker, etc.
That's why self publishing is so important. Self publishing can get you signed by a house, it does happen but then you make nothing! 10-12% of the retail price per book, until the advance is met.
I mean, if you do well enough to get the attention of trad pub, you don't need trad pub unless you want them to handle something like, Spanish translation. But yes, going hybrid is quite popular for various niche reasons and basically, putting your eggs in more than one basket or to put it another way, dividing your IP pie up into more slices.
@@jonevansauthor I agree, but if the author has his / her hopes of making the NYT or something similar, that is the only way. Or having your book everywhere. Double edged sword there. I had a publishing company for years and the returns killed me after awhile. The chains play games where they return and rebuy before the bill is due.
The bulk of a trad author's pay is supposed to be from the advance, which is why royalties are low. The bulk of a self pub author 's pay has to come from royalties because there's nobody to give them an advance and no other way to earn. Trad royalties were never supposed to pay a trad author all on its own.
Also, with trad pub, the publisher takes on 100% of the financial risk of printing and distribution. That fact often gets overlooked in these discussions.
@@mutantsong I was a trad publisher, I am well aware. The largest advance I paid was $80k but it earned out.. Thankfully..
At first glance I thought the backdrop was a formiddable wall of funko pops.
I do not care about how the book was published, as long as the book is good and well written I am all in. When I look to start reading a book it is either because I found it randomly in the bookstore and thought it interesting, or because the reviews seemed promising to what I was looking for.
Old guy who still uses the library that I grew up with. My family used to go to a bookstore Friday nights for our family outing. I still find books in the library - I find them through SPFBO - I follow many authors on SM and get their recommendations. I would say that Mark Lawrence influences my choices more than anybody
I never even considered going the trad publishing route. I'm a professional marketer. Why would I give up a huge percentage of my take-home just to have someone do a worse job marketing my own book? I'd never get as much internal attention as one of these "Cash Cows" so why even play the game? The "Validation" of trad publishing is diminishing every year. Self-pub is going to be the way to go for most people.
Thank you for linking Elle's article. As an indie author, that was a must-read!!
I would read indie authors more if my local library would offer them. I do most of my reading through the library and they tend to focus on big name authors.
This is why the Indy and Self-pub industries are so important. And we need to combat the narrative that only trad published books are good.
I would love to read more indie titles, but I very much dislike the materials used for self-pub stuff on Amazon (that rubberized cover, stiff printer-like paper) and as a Kobo user getting epubs is nigh impossible. I'd love to support indie authors with better quality physical books or ebooks in a format I can use! ❤️
I ordered Mushroom Blues because of your first chapter read thingy. My first dive into indie books
It's a good one to dive into!
@laurah448 gave off Disco Elysium vibes, which has me hyped
@@tristandukes5548 I can promise you, you won't see someone get unalived by a ceiling fan.
Loving the abundance of Neon Ghosts in the background. Nothing like self promotion!!
After seeing Hollywood especially because a mega franchise milking factory I am not surprised at all to see what the publishing industry has become.
Just wanted to say I got my Neon ghosts copy today and wow it's even prettier in real life 🤩😍 Can't wait to get into that one.
Another crazy thing I've come to understand about trad VS indie pub is that trad is not necessarily better quality on things like artwork and editing. And they're making more and more authors that come to them do their own marketing as well. There are just fewer reasons to go trad every year. The biggest hang up indies have is that initial investment to get a book fully edited, but kickstarters (and other crowd funding platforms) have been helping get over those hurdles for some authors. It's still rough for anyone who even wants to break even out of the gate though. Some are doing it and thankfully they're usually not shy with helping others with tips and tricks to do it themselves.
If the issue with Publishers, is that they want celebrities for sales, then explain why Sanderson is not in big name stores like Target or Walmart?
Publishing industry thoughts were really well spoken. Appreciate you sir!
0:00 The Shelves have been taken over by Ghosts XD
the self publishing game is basically a money fight where new people have a massive entrance barrier
It's honestly so sad and discouraging how the publishing industry is. Stories are so important to human beings and always have been and for this intrinsic part of human expression to be reduced to purely a money making scheme is so depressing
Just want to say hello! One of the first ones here. Just finished Dandelion Dynasty last night. So amazing! Thanks for the recommendation.
I’m sure this news wasn’t out when you recorded this video, but cormac mccarthys blood meridian is getting a screen adaptation by John Logan, can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it as it’s one of my favorite books
As shocking as the news about publishing may be, imagine you're not a native English speaker and you want to be a sff author. The top notch authors in my language area sell maybe 500 copies, and in the bookstores you can usually only find translated books - cheers
Thanks for the news, Daniel! :D
I think this is why self pub is getting more recognition. If you write a book, self edit numerous times. Pay for professional edit(s), narrator(s), marketting. I think most of the time we get a better, more quality, original product.
Video Idea: where and how to support Indie authors. I've only ever gone to Amazon or Barnes and Noble to get my books, something like this might help
Not at all surprised by the fact that traditional publishers are pretty much looking for trends instead of unique stories. I grew up having a dream to see my own books physically in a book store, but it seems less and less likely that I'd ever want to attempt traditional publishing; especially with this news. I'd rather give up on my dream than EVER try to fit some boring old trend. Books to me aren't a source of revenue but a source of imagination and wonder. There is no world where I'd spend the time to submit to a traditional publisher, wait a full year to hear anything from them, only for them to tell me they wont accept my work because its 'trendy'. Screw that noise.
I'm 35 - been reading fantasy since I was very small. I am a filmcritic and work part time on different cultural projects. My take is this: Reading in general has gone down. Yes, even with booktok (which is a movement that should have been more careful with what platform it chose tbh. Tiktok is heavily censured, meaning authors that say or write the wrong things wont ever be big there.) I find books to be more expensive now, especially english language books that are imported here (I am Swedish.) An english book in a bookstore here will cost me, if its a pocket, like 20 USD. You know those fancy dune hardcovers? yeah cost something like 40-45 USD. A swedish book will cost me 5-10 sometimes even 15 USD if its really fancy!
Of course i understand why taxes try to support a small language like mine, but it is also annoying. it forces me to buy a lot of books on places like audible or amazon, even though I would prefer to do otherwise. And no it doesn't support swedish publishing because most of those books are translated from english to swedish. so its really annoying that the translation is that much cheaper - when I don't even want it translated to begin with. Most swedes speak fluent english.
The production rate of books have gone up. Like before, you would have to wait a few years for the next book in a series. But now, the author and the editor spit out the next book within a year, and the next one arrives with similar speed. It is too fast and the scripts for the books really suffer because of this. The quality in some of these books is just horrendeous and I'm insulted that they even try to sell it to me. Like.... if the author genuinly doesn't care about the story they only want it out to meet their deadline - it really shows in the text. I'm thinking of Maas here since she is the worst offender that I can think of right now. But I just read Leigh bardugos The familiar and it made me feel the same. jeeebuz just let the script rest a bit, and give it a once over, before you publish. Because these scripts have so many scenes, so many pages, that should just be cut! And scenes with meaning, that build the story, those need to be developed and extended. It is so hit-and miss with many of these authors because they just don't take the time to create a good product.... I mean that Leigh Bardugo book was published at Penguin... PENGUIN.... they have all the resourses in the world and this is what they do with it? pffff. I can't respect it. sorry. I'm happy I only paid Audible for it and not the horrendeous 35 USD that the bookstore asks for it!
The trendchasing is boring, because you can really tell what inspired the books, and rarely is those sources ever stated. Fourth wing? - yeah it interacts closely with dragonriders of pern. except, dragonriders of pern is way slower, denser. I'm not saying that makes fourth wing bad - but you can really tell the difference in production rate. Dragonriders of pern would never be published today! Atlas six? It's the magicians. Just a more rough script. unfinished. Like look at it! It is undeniable.
As a Patreon supporter, I love the additional content :)
Okay the possibility of more movie reviews finally convinced me to support you on patreon. And for me you and the community are a valuable ressource for indie books or just general book recommendations. And since it can be hard to obtain some indie books outside of amazon where I live I am thinking of getting a non amazon e-book reader.
I know this is off the topic of the video, but after hearing your praises for the Sun Eater series, I just got the first book!
Those covers are stunning!
While I find Netflix to be ridiculous here I most say I find the trend of putting copyright striked material behind a paywall hilarious.
I get the irony, but it's the only thing that makes sense. What was meant to go on CZcams and pick up ad revenue now has to go behind a paywall otherwise they won't make anything from the video. And it's not a matter of letting the rare copyright blocked video go without earning anything, considering how often copyright dicks over CZcamsrs who rely on tv/film footage to exist.
I mean part of what I'm hearing in this is the gatekeepers are sort of cutting themselves apart and becoming less relevant, giving authors willing to do the work more ability to market their own material. I get that some authors who aren't good at that avenue will be sad, but that's sort of the nature of business.
all the Neon Ghosts behind him and i still don't have my tracking number.... starting to think all shipping is being rerouted to Daniel🧐
The final waves are still being sent out but PLEASE if you don't get it soon, don't hesitate to reach out to wraithmarked support.
to bounce off what Daniel said, Wraithmarked support is actually really nice. I backed that bookmark kickstarter Daniel did over a year ago and I didn’t get mine for a long time but I reached out to them and I got a response, I’m pretty sure in about a day. And they were really nice about sending a copy to me although books are likely different I still believe they would be nice about it.
@@DanielGreeneReviews I know i know, just jelly cause i haven't gotten my precious yet ❤
I haven't gotten my copy yet either so this comment and response is appreciated lol.
To quote Lemmy, "this next one was a big hit for us. I've got 10,000 copies at my house".
hahah how fortuitous that I just finished the first draft of my first book two days ago.
why couldn't my brain have been happy being a carpenter
LOL, the WALL of Daniel's book in the background. LOVE. IT.
Great as always
8:28 - Just because you partake in a particular system yourself, doesn't mean you believe that should be the only system ever utilized by anyone and everyone or that no other system also has equal if differing worth. 🙂
great vid
Oh man, your take on RMpt2 would have certainly deserved its full audience, but at least its available on Patreon.
I bingewatched the two movies back to back just a few days ago, and hoo-boy, was it a massive example of nobody ever asking Snyder why things just happened in the movie(s) - baffling scene jumps and random story beats wrapped in an astoundingly non-sensical plot. Still, it did have that "so bad that its badness itself becomes entertaining" quality slathered all over it. And on a more practical and positive side, it probably kept a lot of movie people employed, so that's something.
As an aspiring author, this news deeply saddens me to the point of wondering if I should even bother.
This week's slap review. 8/10
1:48 Good gravelling "Woooooo..." as always. Though just like 2 weeks ago you waited a while for the slap! The most important part. This isn't "weekly Woooooooo-elcome" review. It's weekly slap review.
But your slap made up for it. Well timed with the music to add more satisfaction to the yeeting animatic! I was worried you waiting a bit longer would make the slap out of sync with the music but you recovered it well.
Now that I've done a bunch of these slap reivews i'm now curious if you use the same slap sound and how long you spend on animating the title card slap away!
Thank the God Hand you mentioned the Berserk 1997 FS2!!! I didn’t even know about it and now so happy to have watched it bc your quick review as a super fan was spot on, chillingly good!
So, in other words... You need to have a presence or following on social media platforms like CZcams to remain relevant. Would it be accurate to say that in the near future, successful writers will need to maintain channels or large Instagram pages with regular reels?
I hate that this publishing news dampened my mood a little. I'm writing a fantasy book and I've always dreamed of publishing traditionally. I'm an introvert x10, I don't have a following on any social platforms because it's not something I'm interested in, and again, INTROVERT X10, yet, I do want & hope for major success on my debut novel. It sucks that publishing is more concerned about profit than creativity, when there are so many writers like myself hoping and dreaming for that Hunger Games, G.O.T, Twilight success. These people are placed in positions to discover greatness no matter who's the creator of it, or how many followers they have on various platforms. I feel like now the best thing I can do is not give up, make sure the story I am writing is highly marketable and query agents who I believe genuinely want to discover new voices.
How has my reading habit change? Hmm....recently i am mostly reading webnovels/ fanfictions... but i have to admit, finding that really great authors in these platforms are much harder. And their format is also different, since both webnovel/ fanfictions have undetermined length.
My reading habits are entirely with audible. Too busy to only do 1 thing at 1 time and audio books are the only way I can churn through a book a month
I would donate to a cause to get you legal counsel for this.
Love Indie books! I have 3 on the way this week! Jacquelyn Hagen The Spider Key. Alex Pierce The Blood of Queens, and I just got the Brendan Noble The Crimson Court.
I didn't even realize Rebel Moon part 2 was already out...
Pretty sure it was debunked that half of books sell under a dozen copies.
My HC of Neon Ghost arrived yesterday, need to set some time aside to read it, just too much on my TBR
0:56 When you pay the band to play...
If you want to sell, you have to be popular and known. You're not selling some generic tool that can be put on a hardware store or something. It's the nature of the game. It's always about being a celebrity and the big sellers offsetting the small ones or the unsuccessful ones. At any rate, you're always have to be some sort of celeb - it's jsut a matter of degree.
This is only partially true. Big names are supposed to pay for the small/new ones in the sense that the money from best sellers is meant to find, fund, and *support* the nurturing of new careers, the non-celebrities. In a healthy system, top tier, mid tier, and new tier coexist in a cycle. It's only been until the past decade or less that trad pub has pushed for celebrities and people with platforms only, before then anyone with a good enough story could walk in off the street and have a decent shot at a career with a little apt timing and some luck. Money/fame has always helped, sure, but writing all of trad pub history off as 'well yeah it's always been a place for celebrities only' is simply not true.
And it's definitely not true that *only* popular people sell. The key is not popularity, it's marketing. If strong marketing behind a new, unknown author with a solid project never worked we wouldn't have any big names (or a mid-list) to begin with.
What's the point of the new HP audiobooks? The Stephen Fry ones are already *perfect* !
Important note the Berserk fan adaptation is on the channel Arche, with an E, not the Warhammer CZcamsr Arch, with no E, who is so racist Games Workshop forced him to remove the word Warhammer from his channel name cause they didn't want to be associated with him.
And it's worth the watch for people who don't know what they are getting into as well! I tried and was swept up in it. It's not perfect en very gritty but I was impressed
Yo Daniel, might wanna watch out. There's a bunch of ghosts behind you.
I got bored of trad published books years ago, and mostly stopped reading. Tried to get back into reading a few years later and couldnt find any trad books that kept my attention. It was only when I dove into indie books a couple years ago that I found anything interesting. Could be a coincidence, but...
People are missing a big thing about the publishing news; volume. There are so many books being published every year that even if you took out the celebrity sales most of the other authors wouldn’t make a lot of money as there as just so many books to chose from and most readers don’t actually read that many books in a year.
Daniel's book collection is looking a little different.
For someone dreaming to become an auther but not ones own manager, pr person and agent all in one, the notion that it's virtually impossible to get published especially as a non-native english speaker. Better just grind away at the office job I suppose!
If a production company is willing to inappropriately copyright strike fair reviews of a movie that do not show large clips of the film, then I would personally just put out a blanket recommendation to my viewers to think twice before watching the movie because they are not open to criticism and the quality of the film cannot be validated. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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For me, it doesn't matter if the book is a "traditionally published" book or an Indie book. I have really enjoyed most of the Indie books that I've read(like The Lawful Times books). I usually base what I read on the cover, title, synopsis, and what people I trust recommend that I read. I don't really pay attention to awards(especially after that whole Hugo Award thing) or what publishers are trying to push. I started reading Brandon Sanderson only because I went to his Elantris book signing that he did at my local library. And now I've gotten one of my best friends to start listening to his audiobooks.
We have a nice, cozy used book store where I live(so cozy that they actually have a couple of resident cats) that I used to go to every Friday to buy new books. The owner at the time knew me by name and always paid attention to the type of books I would buy. And whenever he got any books that he thought I would like, he would hold them in reserve. Thats the only thing I kinda miss about going to actual physical book stores. I kinda wish we could go back to those days.