What I dislike most about 'vote with your pocketbook' is that it's a form of victim blaming. "Well, you didnt' buy enough copies soon enough, so we're not publishing it.'
Selling only to people who already buy from you is a lousy business strategy, and it's not workign - the established publishing industry is shrinking, while people buy more books than ever, just through different channels.
Of course people need to buy it... but it needs to be there in the first place, and there needs to be a choice of QUILTBAG characters, not just the one token gay couple, and authors need to do their bit to be more aware of issues (including, as a friend pointed out to me yesterday, disability issues.)
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Date: 2012-03-05 03:16 pm (UTC)Selling only to people who already buy from you is a lousy business strategy, and it's not workign - the established publishing industry is shrinking, while people buy more books than ever, just through different channels.
Of course people need to buy it... but it needs to be there in the first place, and there needs to be a choice of QUILTBAG characters, not just the one token gay couple, and authors need to do their bit to be more aware of issues (including, as a friend pointed out to me yesterday, disability issues.)