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Originally Posted by Porthos

Time for The Globe and Mail to chime in:

Who needs publishers when you can pitch a book on social media?

"But recently a writer/illustrator broke $1-million in pledges on Kickstarter – probably more than a publisher would have given him as an advance."

I guess the use of the word "probably" means they think there was some small possibility that, 6 weeks ago, some publisher could have been offering Rich a million-dollar advance, if he'd only thought to check in with them? Now that's optimism, right there.