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|    Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) to mumble    |
|    Re: Definition of 'published'    |
|    11 Jun 14 07:15:26    |
      From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com              On 6/11/14 4:30 AM, mumble wrote:       > On 06/10/2014 08:43 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:       >> If you are TOTALLY unknown -- no friends, no network of acquaintances --       >> yes, you'll fail, because you have no way to get the word out.       >       > The internet may have changed that.                      I was including Internet Friends as part of that network. If you have       few-to-zero friends/acquaintances online, no one's gonna plug your site.       Then the only way you're ever likely to get noticed enough will be       something like paid ads. But in most cases if you could afford to pay       enough for the ads to get distributed widely enough to be noticed... you       had enough money to pay for the editing, cover, etc., already.                     --        Sea Wasp        /^\        ;;;        Website: http://www.grandcentralarena.com Blog:       http://seawasp.livejournal.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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