Substack, the creator economy & serialised storytelling with Elle Griffin
The Writing Life
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The Importance of Physical Books in the Web Novel World
I think it becomes less the rule and more the exception in the web novel world because now you've got a book that can be an incentive. You want to pay for this premium tier that lets you have this physical copy. It's like the equivalent of buying a wand at all avanders in in Harry Potter park and I think that becomes this kind of extra layer around that fandom. Yeah well I guess that turns the physical object into something special so rather than it being another book that I have to somehow fit into my house.
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