So, you want to be an author?
Before I launch into my jeremiad on the publishing industry -- both traditional and self-imprint, from both the perspective of abysmal failure and colossal success -- consider this surreal statistic: more content is pushed to, and churned up on, the Internet in 48 hours than in all of the 20th Century. I don't know what bespectacled MIT genius, employing what head-scratching algorithms, calculated this, but I believe it.
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