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Elle Griffin
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Elle Griffin writes The Elysian, a personal blog at ellegriffin.substack.com about writing, politics and economics. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The linked Substack post, titled 'No one will read your book', is about the publishing industry. The only HN comment is a bare link noting the post's 2021 date and original URL.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Radically reimagining the world for our benefit. Exploring a utopian future through essay collections & print pamphlets.
Most-linked posts?
- No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing)3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-05-04
What Hacker News says?
Yes! I actually interviewed Andy Weir for another piece for this exact reason. https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/publishing-industry-truth
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on “Writing books is not really a good idea”Submitted Writing books is not really a good idea as a story · 577 points
HN discussionI disagree that fiction by top publishing houses tend to be more lucrative for the author. I wrote an article about that one too if you're interested. https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/publishing-industry-truth
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on “Writing books is not really a good idea”Submitted No one will read your book (and other truths about publishing) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionYes, I am basing that off the research I did for this article: https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/publishing-industry-truth "Most books peak in the first 10 weeks after their debut, then exit the market." This is "most" so of course there are exceptions. And it sounds like you are one of them. That is amazing! Did it have a big bump at front, and then decrease over time? Or have you seen other bumps later on? I do w…
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on “Writing books is not really a good idea”Submitted I crowdfunded a novel using cryptocurrency as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI did mention Alexandre Dumas as a case study in a previous article. Here's a snippet: "But there used to be another way. When Alexandre Dumas debuted The Count of Monte Cristo it was published as a feuilleton—a portion of the weekly newspaper devoted to fiction. From August 1844 to January 1846 his chapters were published in 18 installments for The Journal des Débats, a newspaper that went out to 9,000 to 10,000 pa…
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on “Writing books is not really a good idea”Submitted What if we fund artists the way we fund startups? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAbsolutely, but it was completely profitable for the author. Alexandre Dumas earned about 10,000 francs ($65,743 today) per installment when he was poached from The Presse by The Constitutionnel in 1845. And it's estimated he was making about that much per installment writing The Count of Monte Cristo. People followed it like it was Game of Thrones! (More on that here if you're interested: https://ellegriffin.substa…
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on “Writing books is not really a good idea”Submitted I don't read books anymore (I read everything on my phone) as a story · 5 points
HN discussion(2021) Original url: https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/publishing-industry-truth ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27032590 )
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on “No one will read your book (2021)”Submitted What if countries had to compete for citizens? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted These authors make $100k/year self-publishing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wildbow earns $100k writing on Patreon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When people say “don't quit your day job” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if countries acted more like companies? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we should fix the education system as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opening our borders will solve just about everything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I made $2,460 serializing my novel chapters as a story · 1 points
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