A follow-up question, since you publish with it: do you pay any mind to what kinds of people may be most likely subscribing to the service? Or do you - as my creator friends tell me is a healthy mindset - publish without spending effort trying to minmax corraling an audience that's predisposed towards what you provide?
I am no marketing whiz, but what you say about the service and related products would make me hesitant to hope for an audience hungry for non-propaganda. You might not be publishing for the sake of earning a living, but I'm sure you are happier having your writing read than ignored.
Some of the ideas behind the service sound great to me, at least. I hope other services pop up that can build it better. Would be interesting to see this apply to a streaming service - subscribers wouldn't necessarily fund shows they hate then.
The main problem I see with it is a lot of people assume you need a kindle (propitiatory device) when you can read the digital books on any medium. And I am pretty sure kindles show ads, but other platforms, or at least regular computers do not.
I fell into this category until now. I try to stick to physical books, so no biggie, but I like knowing how things work.
You've ended up making a good sales pitch for your book. No offense, though, but I'm feeling pretty burnt by the isekai/litrpg genres due to how abused they are in anime/manga. You at least are taking it more seriously and give a purpose for the isekai - that's hopeful to me.
You could probably make a promotional thread sometime, I think we're allowed to make those for self-promotion.
While I don't speak to as many creators as I'd like, I think you're the first I've seen share this insight about one of the driving forces of fantasy. I developed the insight in pursuit of working on tabletop game design (exploration is a big driving force in men that gets neglected in modern times). I try to share it with others, but they don't seem to appreciate the gravity of it.
Things like fighting will always be an allure to the masses. Modern people are afraid of it so they dare not try it themselves. I should perhaps ask a soldier/mercenary how they feel about it in fiction... But anyway this specific logic I've applied for tremendous insight into many things.
My creator friends cater directly to one or more classes of degenerate, despite avoiding the blue pill themselves, so I try to engage them with group psychoanalysis concerning what the vermin truly desire and how it's visible in even the sloppiest of their trends.
Too many people thought that handholding-as-a-fetish was a meme, not seeing that it was a genuine symptom of desire from people starved of human connection.
A follow-up question, since you publish with it: do you pay any mind to what kinds of people may be most likely subscribing to the service? Or do you - as my creator friends tell me is a healthy mindset - publish without spending effort trying to minmax corraling an audience that's predisposed towards what you provide?
I am no marketing whiz, but what you say about the service and related products would make me hesitant to hope for an audience hungry for non-propaganda. You might not be publishing for the sake of earning a living, but I'm sure you are happier having your writing read than ignored.
Some of the ideas behind the service sound great to me, at least. I hope other services pop up that can build it better. Would be interesting to see this apply to a streaming service - subscribers wouldn't necessarily fund shows they hate then.
I fell into this category until now. I try to stick to physical books, so no biggie, but I like knowing how things work.
Thanks for the information.
You've ended up making a good sales pitch for your book. No offense, though, but I'm feeling pretty burnt by the isekai/litrpg genres due to how abused they are in anime/manga. You at least are taking it more seriously and give a purpose for the isekai - that's hopeful to me.
You could probably make a promotional thread sometime, I think we're allowed to make those for self-promotion.
While I don't speak to as many creators as I'd like, I think you're the first I've seen share this insight about one of the driving forces of fantasy. I developed the insight in pursuit of working on tabletop game design (exploration is a big driving force in men that gets neglected in modern times). I try to share it with others, but they don't seem to appreciate the gravity of it.
Things like fighting will always be an allure to the masses. Modern people are afraid of it so they dare not try it themselves. I should perhaps ask a soldier/mercenary how they feel about it in fiction... But anyway this specific logic I've applied for tremendous insight into many things.
My creator friends cater directly to one or more classes of degenerate, despite avoiding the blue pill themselves, so I try to engage them with group psychoanalysis concerning what the vermin truly desire and how it's visible in even the sloppiest of their trends.
Too many people thought that handholding-as-a-fetish was a meme, not seeing that it was a genuine symptom of desire from people starved of human connection.