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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
PS I only brought up the Stephen King issue because his experiment also showed that the internet (free to pay what you want people) were not supportive enough to have him finish a project and this includes his own core fans.
If someone who is known can not produce enough to justify project (not even his lifestyle, he was not expecting same results), then how in the hell often will an unknown pull it off.
Hence the whole damn radiohead could not do it before they were famous argument.
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I don't think its his fan base isn't supportive enough - I just don't think it's big enough and his ego played into that. For example, I knew what radiohead doing, like most of us. But I had no idea SK did this, I asked my Dad which is a SK fan, he had no idea.
The guy let his ego kick in, which he really has - and his marketing sucked balls.
Maybe it's just the Music aspect? I just don't see a book author packing stadiums around the world, hell.. even bars to the level as some local bands do.
But.. then again, some of these online book sales are rocking it. You own it, no hassles - you can set your prices, drop it based on age. So many mediums online you can cover, so many ways to market it, the exposure can almost be instant and it's endless, for sure. And some of these guys started to produce series with monthly subscriptions.. brilliant..
Stephen King must have sucked...