MY COMMENT
I can't wait for the "What Hasn't Changed?" if you have a way to at commentors to your blog,through their email specifically, that will be cool. Sometimes people follow you or your newsletter,but have specific desires.
Someone offline said they wanted to read an audiobook of mine, so I know audiobooks are doing it, because no one ever asked to read an ebook before offline to me, and no one has still. But it is clear audiobooks are the way, and that makes sense. The way human beings like to act offline, an audiobook allows someone to walk the street and look up but still not have to read. It is that middle ground? between text and video in some ways. For text or video both need your eyes.
I know quite a few fellow artists who have crowdfunded but do you have to be a certain level of popularity first? I think so. The people i know who crowdfunded successfully in video/music/comic books have all done many conventions, have many email lists and a larger network than me.
What markers of popularity should one look for before they try a kickstarter, if any?
"For authors who are able to look beyond book sales and even write beyond the book" I have to admit, I learned this as well, I am just not as fast in the self selling as other artists, but I am getting there.
In retrospect this was inevitable. The creative aspect of being an artist in any medium will never change, that is about displaying what comes from one's soul through some method to be experienced by all. But, the commercial aspect to modern, of the now not better or worse, art stems from the change from an industry based on patronage, having a father, a financial benefactor. To one in which the artist is also the fiscal operator. Not merely because they want to but because they must. And this is going to make the world of art change, commercially. I bet one day, writers of a certain level of popularity will accept payment by other writers to put small stories into their books, as a kind of paid assistance. If that isn't already happening.
Lastly, though not leastly, thank you for your efforts Jane Friedman. You have helped me see the industry better.
MY COMMENT TO THE REFERRAL
Thank you Jane Friedman you have been helpful from the first post I read of yours. It heard of you through Kobo first and have been reading your insights ever since.
Hope you have greater prescience in the ten years to come and more positive changes in the literary industry in said time.
I ask all who have learned from her or have good wills to spare to leave an inspiring comment to her postaluminumal journey.
the following is mine https://janefriedman.com/how-publishing-has-changed-since-2015/#comment-69309
