Is The World Saturated With Books?
Inspired by OldNFO...
This crossed my screen this morning:
(Hope he feels better soon!)
But it sparked something else for me.
You know, this is why new writers don't need to worry about "there's no room for MY novel/story/novella out there" or “the market is saturated”.
But, what they need to know/remember is:
Those folks who read are voracious velocireaders - always hungry for more. And us poor writers can only write so fast, so it's GOOD to have other writers out there writing and publishing, too, so that the velocireaders don't come knocking at our doors and peering in our windows trying to get more nibbles and instead they can run around eating from that writer's forest, or that writer's asteroid, or that other writer's dry gulch, or the dustbin of Project Gutenburs, or even that other writer's swamp of horror and murderous despair.
Because there will always be new velocireaders being born and wanting fed, so we need the new writers publishing, so that the velocireaders don't destroy the poor older writers by shredding them to bits with their demands for MOAR!
So, viva la writers, new and old! Go make some reader-food! And know when you are sick, or slow or just stuck in RL (Real Life) that other writers got your back.
Yes, this is true. There's an infinite demand for good books, "good" is the key word.
Yep I definitely spend a lot of time in dustbin of Project Gutenburs, why back in my day and the day before that they... Grin.
& yep, always looking for the new great read as well. I do have a minor grumble about availability of new writes today; I'd like to see more indies independent of Amazon, .epub and or paper rather than Kindle or Amazon approved paper. I know its my personal thing, I'd really rather not deal with Amazon.
Having said that, living at the end of a very long supply line I do, not biting my nose to spite my face, often deal with them, -but at least scratching my nose to spite my, if there another choice, even if it cost a bit more than Amazon, I go for it instead.