Weblog on the Internet and public policy, journalism, virtual community, and more from David Brake, a Canadian academic, consultant and journalist

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8 February 2002
Filed under:Online media,Virtual Communities at9:45 am

A heartening tale of how two business models that aren’t supposed to be profitable on the Internet – self-publishing using e-books and virtual community – have turned out to work profitably together for at least one person – a publisher of fantasy books.

It’s the sort of thing I would have said ought to work but in the last few years a lot of things that seemed as if they would work have proven unprofitable. Glad to see this actually does work. It may be that the particular audience of fantasy readers he is addressing is fanatical enough that they represent a special case…