Comment by nkrisc
1 month ago
Someone who buys books at Barnes & Noble is not going to print online fan fiction on demand. If you think this is something a “mainstream consumer” would do, I think you’re very out of touch with the average person.
1 month ago
Someone who buys books at Barnes & Noble is not going to print online fan fiction on demand. If you think this is something a “mainstream consumer” would do, I think you’re very out of touch with the average person.
Isn’t reading stuff on the internet more mainstream than buying things at Barnes and Noble? Not necessarily those specific things, but the notion that something needs to be physically available at a bookstore to be relevant is at best dated.
If you spend a lot of time online, it would certainly seem that way.
Or spend a lot of time with certain demographics. My parents don't know what ao3 is, but a couple of female coworkers are huge fans
Edit: according to [1] 93% of users are 44 or younger, and women outnumber men 10:1
[1] https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/02/fan-demographics-on-ao3/
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