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Substack, the creator economy & serialised storytelling with Elle Griffin

The Writing Life

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The Rise and Fall of Fiction

I read more than most people in the United States and still I struggle to find my next good book that I want to read. The design of a book is that even a fast reader will take a day if they read it all the way through it, it will take them a day to read one book. If it's an average sized book, most people will take a lot longer than that to read a book whereas you can watch eight movies in one day. So yeah immediately you're you're kind of up against a really difficult time equation. But this isn't to say because I've had a lot of people read these arguments and say well publishing books isn’t a good idea

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