On Wednesday 27 June 2018 17:50:12 deloptes wrote: > William Morder wrote: > > The only way that I can earn money (real money) is by writing, which > > means that I need to be able to print out. > > Honestly I am not sure one earns real money by writing and that printer is > required for this nowdays. Writing, reading degraded so much in the past > 20y, fake news and BS swamped the media and the internet ... Meanwhile I > prefer reading books published before 1918. > > Where are you located BTW? > > regards > > I don't have an exact date as my cut-off date, but it does seem that (as I've been told by others) I only read books that are otherwise unknown to living human readers. Also, I don't know if I will make money directly by these books, but there are many indirect rewards that come as a result of publishing, and I am trying to make a book that is unlike anything in its field (or fields). Already said this earlier, but I'm in San Francisco, possibly the most expensive place to live on earth. And I don't work in tech, and am a generation older than the "typical" or stereotypical residents of this city. On the bright side, though, there are about 150 book publishers in the Bay area. Bill