Indie Means Genre Fiction
David Gaughran has a good post up on Indie Reader – The Future is Indie – which dovetails well with Tom Lichtenberg’s post about the meaning of indie. The question has been why indie publishing doesn’t get the same respect as indie music and indie film. The answer is pretty simple: they’re entirely different. Though there are self-released CD’s and independently-financed movies that are attempts to be commercial, the main meaning of indie is “different than the mainstream.” With independent publishing, this is also the case. With indie publishing, it’s not the case at all.
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