Sifting Through the Slush
One of the real downsides about the broadening world of self-publication/self-marketing is that it cuts out the middle-man who sometimes acts as a quality filter. That means, the consumer is either stuck with the ugly and time-consuming task for sifting through the slush (slush is a writing industry term referring to the pile of submissions on an editor’s or publisher’s desk, made by writers who neither have contracts nor agents) themselves.
How about a website that rates self-published authors/artists/musicians! The site could make money by using Google Addsense. And that would be it’s public side. It could also have an artists side where people who have services artists need: agents; managers; graphic designers; etc.
And who would these great sifters be? Why, they could be people hired by the site or it could be fans themselves. The latter would be ideal since there are more fans and thus more sifters.
That’s today’s idea. I’ll let you know if I have any more.