/lit/ - Literature

>>11020255
*Ulillillia

>>11020255
>caring about publication in the age of high speed internet
You weren't actually intending to make money off of your book, were you? Just post your pdf/epub somewhere for free.

>>11020499
Speak for yourself, brainlet. I already have several publications which supplement my income.

>>11020509
Charging money for the spread of knowledge invalidates any knowledge you are trying to spread. It means that the content of your information is put together to encourage people to pay you, and not to actually teach and bring someone closer to the truth.

>>11020536
>literature is about spreading knowledge
Back to the peripatoi.

>>11020550
Even fiction must have some kind of a message in it for the reader to think about after reading. That message in itself is knowledge.

>>11020579
Only in a facile, descriptive sense of that word, old man.

>>11020536
Spreading things for free dosen't pay the bills or food.
Also, people usualy only give true value to something if they need to pay for it. If is given for free, they will imediatly think its bad.
Also2, knowledge and truth don't come for free. Even if you don't spend a penny, you still worked your ass off in reading and pondering. Currency is just a way for us to turn imaterial stuff into a logical and palpable thing. You can't touch "labour", but you can touch 1 dollar bills.
You also can't exchange whale oil for shoes in a matter that looks logical. But using currency and/or stock exchanges this turns possible.

Tl;dr: nothing is free and money helps a lot.

>>11020579

it's not a message in the sense of a thesis/claim (i.e. something that can be taught) that is given in literature, but only a "potential" message, i.e. the opportunity to think about the possible meaning of the work of literature.

Literature that openly gives you a message is just a treatise in disguise and it could have been written as such (e.g. Aesop's fables are translatable in moral messages, and you don't actually need a literary envelope to deliver them to a functional adult). There is no message in literature. Literature gives you a beautiful toy you can look at - the thoughts you think about it are important for you and in the context of your own experience and completely irrelevant as generalizations on the "actual meaning" of the novel which, again, does not exist or exists in such a remote way to be completely inaccessible to you.