Publishing Around the World
Wow, look
at this article on a self-publishing craze in
China! This is amazing! People are writing
stories one chapter at a time, like I’m doing, and other people are paying to
read them. It’s like the Victorian novels or even works like Stephen King used
to do when he was younger.
I thought serial publications were a thing of
the past, but here’s an entire publishing trend based on them. I was right in
my first post, there is a lot of money to be made in the world of writing. Look
at what the article says, one guy makes the equivalent of about ₤100,000 a
year. That’s about $160,000 a year just from his serial publications.
I should
slow down and explain a little, but this is really exciting to me. Basically, a
company in China has started encouraging people to write as a community. It
seems like each person is writing their own book. Other people then pay for
each installment of the novel that is being written.
For example, they might charge 10 cents for
each part/chapter of the book I’m writing in this blog. With thousands of
people reading, I could be making hundreds of dollars a day off each
installation. The company has so many people writing and reading, that they are
able to keep publishing everything from quality books to amateur fan fiction.
Another Reason to Start Writing Your Novel
I want to
start a company like this, now. I could call it “Thor’s Writing Hotspot” or
something more reminiscent of 1980s magazines that used to have books by
installment: maybe “Poltergeist Publishing” ^_^. The article says that the
biggest problem for starting a company like that over here is that in the west,
not enough people are writers, but I wonder if that’s true.
I know a
lot of people who have wanted to write a book or who have even tried. I think
most of us don’t finish because we don’t have time or become interested in
something else, but look at how much of an interest there is in books,
especially now that we have mobile devices to read on. I read this article on
my iPhone!
Is anyone
else interested in writing a book? Maybe if we start a community here, we can
make it grow into something like they did in China. I’m definitely going to
keep writing my book. Please offer any thoughts or feedback you have!
