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>90 percent of books sell less than 1000 copies(at best estimates)
Wtf? I've written low-quality smut in 2 hours that have been seen by 30 times as many people....
>50 percent of books sell less than 12 copies
Wtf???? So it's already over for my novel???? At that point, I might as well just post a chapter a week on YouTube. Even an absolute failure there would get 100 views..


Why even bother?
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I have written 4chan posts that have been seen by 30x as many people
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Your only hope to make money writing a novel is to sell the TV/movie rights.
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>>24120316
I don't even care about the money. The idea of only 12 people reading what you spent an entire year on is simply tragic and ruthlessly blackpilling. Meanwhile dancing Tiktok bimbos like my cousin gets 50k views at the bare minimum.
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>>24120301
>chapter a week on YouTube
why are zoomers like this
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Most books should not have been published. They're written by people who pee in a lake and are surprised when the water doesn't taste salty.
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>>24120316
What kind of books sell so poorly?
Is the publishing industry kept afloat by Brandon Sanderson/Stephen King/Rowling/etc, 19th century Russians, textbooks and porn for women (those novels where a psychotic Duke/King falls in love with a common woman and she fix him)?
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>>24120389
>What kind of books sell so poorly?
Books written by people where their most interesting feature or thing to say is being non-white and/or a woman.
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>>24120335
Become a dancing tiktok bimbo if you care so much about attention instead of quality for those who can grasp it, that likely being posterity.
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>>24120335
Bro ...

>what you spent an entire year on
Where in the image does it say that any of these authors spent a year on their book?

>dancing Tiktok bimbos like my cousin gets 50k views at the bare minimum
So people are more willing to consume something that is free and takes 30 seconds as opposed to something that costs money and takes hours and hours? How curious.
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>>24120301
Sex sales, no matter how many puritans wish otherwise.
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>>24120301
Market your novel. Buy an ad on 4chan (they are very cheap). No one will buy your work if you don't advertise it.
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>>24120301
I'd rather shill my shitty metamodern book for years on end to no one at all then lose my integrity like you.
We are not the same.
Buy my book on Amazon.
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>>24120904
no one will buy your book even if you bought an ad on 4chan.
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>>24120335
music is worse. I know guys buying their way onto tours and festivals who don't even write music. it's all a show.
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>>24121071
I think you have a much higher opinion of the average user here than you should. Tons of people are buying books and albums and onlyfans and streamers purely because they saw a 4chan ad
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>>24120301
>>24120316
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>>24120301
Stop writing for the masses and start writing for the tard wranglers who tell the masses what to think. A book isn't supposed to make you money, its a way to launder money and credibility.

All my books have sold under a dozen copies but many of the people reading them are politicians, think tank spooks, professors and so on. Literally all I've ever done is self-publish anonymously and promote on 4chan, so far I've already made a movie deal and there's a netflix series coming out this year which is also taking some minor inspiration from my work. There are only a couple hundred people who are actually creating original works and ideas at any given moment and the rest of culture is downstream from that. Most "views" and "followers" on social media don't even exist. The difference between an account with 300 followers and one with 30k followers is that the later has 27 700 bot accounts subscribed to them. Just trust your gut and put stuff out there, the people who need to see it will.
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>>24120301
>it's a money laundering racket
>especially for politicians
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>>24121132
Hey I wrote a book specifically for you actually honestly it is called subliminality and you can find it on amazon and its really good probably the best thing you'have never reed in you'are entire life
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>>24121154
If its not a free pdf i wont bother
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>>24121170
If you're willing to read the whole thing, I'll send it to you.
My discord is kuzylim
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>>24120335
It takes 30 seconds to watch a teenager take her clothes off on tiktok
It takes 8 hours minimum to read a book about her boring ass life
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>>24121201
Just post it on archive or something im not trying to make friends
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>>24121154
Sounds interesting. Post some prose samples so we can judge you.
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>>24120790
>>24121219
>W-Well it just takes a long time to read!
>>24121132
>I-Its quality! Not quantity!
The cope is equality as blackpilling right now. It really is over, isn't it?
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>>24121522
I just finished a chapter of a book right now but today I watched about 40 ten-twenty second videos of teenage girls.

The chapter of the book took an hour, the twenty second videos took 15 minutes, and they are wired into the deepest most primal part of human sexuality while the book is about philosophy.

It is obvious why they get more views, use your brain please.



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