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   silentashes (silentashes@pdx.sh)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 05:56:19 JST silentashes

   • Adam Greenfield

   @adamgreenfield D’Oh, I guess I’m ignorant about differences in quality, oops 😬.

   Context / intent / motive:
   - readers bypass Amazon
   - no need to preorder via Amazon
   - libraries can order it now
   =
   bumps up sales & revenue
   (&& profit margins are higher, they dont take as much of a cut compared to Amazon, iiuc)
   ===
   creates enough demand to fund / justify it to the Verso publishers.

   (ie maybe begin with POD,
   then use those numbers to say,
   “hey ok Verso can greenlight it”
   )

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 05:56:17 JST tinydoctor

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     • Adam Greenfield

     @adamgreenfield @silentashes I go with Verso.

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     Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 05:56:19 JST Adam Greenfield

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     @silentashes This is just how I came to be on Verso’s radar in the first place! Self-publishing via POD is a perfectly sound strategy for early-career folks, and I’d advocate just that for anyone who’s willing to hire a professional editor out of their pocket (which really is mandatory IMO). Where it falls down, by and large, is in distribution. Unless you’ve got, like, a hypermotivated stan army to pass your link around like nerdly samizdat, you really need those resources behind you.