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		kyleyeats on April 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No one buys books You used to pitch your book to publishers. Now you pitch your audience.

x0x0 on April 23, 2024 | [–]

That's always been the case; it's merely a proxy for likely sales. It used to be that audience was demonstrated by previous sales; now it can be proved by being a celebrity, twitch/twitter/instagram/whatever followers, etc.

AlbertCory on April 22, 2024 | | [–]

I think that's true, actually.

greenie_beans on April 23, 2024 | [–]

this is true for non-fiction for sure

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