We live in a new media age that extends beyond pure media. It’s more like an age of decentralization.
If you don’t like mainstream news and/or television, you can go to YouTube and choose whatever program or channel that seems to speak directly to you and your tastes.
Heck, you might even take a stab at starting your own YouTube channel.
If you don’t like banks and an ever devaluing dollar, you can invest in Bitcoin which has a 200+ percent rate of annual return. You can get rich on the stuff far quicker than a 401K investment.
You control it with your phone if you wish. When you invest in BTC, you become your own bank.
The same can be said of publishing. Sure, you get an agent, and allow said agent to sell your book (your intellectual property) to a publisher who will hold onto that property forever. Or at least some form of it, such as audio or electronic rights or multi media rights.
Or, you can start your own independent publishing company, retain all your rights for your life and the life of your kids and their kids and their kids…
You take all the profits. You make a nice living that’s not possible with traditional publishing.
As a reader and a thriller fan, you can read what you want when you want with your smartphone. You have become your own bookstore and your own library. You can carry thousands of volumes in your back pocket. Pretty cool.
The days of landlines, Block Buster Video, and CDs are so 20th century. Don’t get left behind in the 21st century.
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