He "made his bones" so to speak, in the marketplace. He became a known quality.
I am not saying your work is valueless, simply that when people do not have to pay for something, they value it less.
I wish you well.
I have found, though, even with ideas, people take you more seriously when you demand payment.
It can be a combination, sort of free stuff as promotional.
Most of my articles, I explicitly allow to be reproduced as long as their is attribution.
Thanks for the more in-depth review. I hope we can continue this.
So, one of the challenges that we have a need to overcome is the forced obscurity that has been developed through progressivism and their drive for historical revisionism or worse. Their drive for complete historical erasure. We do indeed have it within our power to reverse this.
This is a real disadvantage so I didn’t list it but we have arrived at a place to where nobody knows who John Dickinson was.(to pick one of dozens) In my revivalist efforts, he is one that I am considering recording a biography of in the future. Realistically speaking, there isn’t even a market to target. Free is the only route. That doesn’t even include the challenges of marketing.
To use something I’ve already completed so this isn’t theoretical, https://librivox.org/the-colored-patriots-of-the-american-revolution-by-william-cooper-nell/ Progressives have conspired for over a century to keep these people off the history books. Nell made is pay off of the work at the time, but I’m talking about its value today.
In the context of our Founders constantly being called racist, I think there is quite a large value in the revival of this work by Nell and all of these works.
I guess what this comes down to is this: We need to revive the Founding Fathers. We know the progressives don’t want that, their revisionism is proof of that. It is to our advantage to do what the progressives don’t want us doing. And not simply out of some temper tantrum, so stomp our feet harder. This is a produced work that sabotages their effort and these can be passed around to the detriment of progressivism.
How can we accomplish the result of reviving the Founders?(if not this) Let me know what you think.