Crowdfunding: Connecting Creators and Patrons

I think some of the vitriol is born of a strange misplaced fear. Some would-be writers might be afraid of a world where there are so many unmapped options. It sounds like it is hard enough to break into the old model of the writing industry, but with this new model on the horizon, now writers can't really say they've tried everything to get published or gain an audience unless they've exhaustively marketed themselves through the old system _and_ given self-marketing a try. And that is perhaps daunting enough to cause fear and vitriol.

It is stranger that would-be readers would have vitriol against something they can just ignore. But maybe some of them, particularly those who respond to polls and things on the internet, are thinking in terms of wishing they were writers and so the same fear is triggered for them.