On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:32:00 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Monday 20 March 2006 11:10, Nick Rout wrote: > > How can you have trouble getting anything published when every ISP hands > > out free homepages? > > While merely putting up a site on some random ISPs' home pages will make > material available on the 'Net, but it won't, on its own, get the material > into readers' brains. There is a huge amount of effort required to > persuade customers to actually go out to the book shop and buy the story, > or go to some totally unknown A. N. Other's home page. That's why the > royalties offered to authors is such a small fraction of the sales > revenue. > > Getting a work accepted for hosting on recogised Internet Publisher's > server does provide a degree of recognition and a point of reference for a > possible audience. > > -- > CS
All true, which i guess is why the well visited web sites have some quality control - and thats not a reference to Wesley as I haven't really read any of his stuff. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
