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Do many of you buy albums or shirts and shit for bands? I I generally support the bands I listen to (an Anamanaguchi T-shirt here, a Popol Vuh iTunes album there). I suspect there are many more like me. But somehow this busting up of the music industry with things like cafe press and bandcamp has yet to impact writing.

I'm not necessarily pushing kindles. Manufacturing paper books, distributed in offices in major cities and allowing for pickup there so as to avoid spending money on shipping, would make physical books just as affordable as Barners and Noble. And yet, this does not happen.

Why not?

What compels us to go to the so called professionals? Is it because they can be found in brick and mortar stores like Barnes and Noble? Is it that expensive to print books? Is the binding Harper's provides that much better?

(Sidenote: Is this what Amazon is planning with those real life stores? A complete domination over the entire world?)

Why don't we just pay authors for shirts and their stickers?

You who are so opposed and think I turn an artist into a brand, a logo and am thus to be destroyed, let me assure you that the transformation has already taken place. Surely Stephen King prefers his handwriting to look a certain way? Authorship is already a brand. It is marketing and brings along enablers for you to write anything damn thing you please. Let's at least cut the middlemen (the publishers) and pay each other for our novels.

Anyway, we'll just write anonymously. We have no voice to recognize like the singers of bad bands and writing styles are far easier to hide. This will make us avoid the temptations of being whores to our families and friends. We will be honest writers. We will not tell our real life acquaintances. We will be dishonest people.

>> No.10913585

>>>/mu/ is that way you absolute illiterate fuck

>> No.10913610

>>10913585
did you even ready the essay? or am i that bad of a writer?

>> No.10913630

>music and literature: an essay

I want to kill myself.

>> No.10913642

>>10913472
Board is 18+.

>> No.10913657

>>10913472
>315 words
>an essay

>> No.10913667

Why is everything an essay today? It doesn't validate or improve your post if you when you called it that

>> No.10913671

>>10913667
Forget the "if you".

>> No.10913677

>>10913472
you probably thought this was really profound while typing it, didn't you

get off /mu/ or whatever music place you jack off to and read more challenging books

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>>10913671
such is life in an era where spellcheck is available and yet we seldom use it.

anamanaguchi dude, it's all because of you that we came out here tonight.

i get so fired up on the dream!

>> No.10913729

dude what are you trying to say

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Why would you title this as an essay? It's 300 words, half of which is rhetorical questions. Just write a fucking paragraph and ask people their thoughts.