This post dovetails nicely with the one mk recently made titled Personal Content Isn't A Sin. It can be difficult to propagate your own work as an artist on line because the truth is, there aren't a lot of sites that encourage it. I'm a musician and if i want to share my work there are sites that exist but many of them are highly saturated and some, like ReverNation seem to be populated almost entirely by other musicians interested in propagating their work and not discovering someone else's. As ooli mentioned in reference to artists posting their own work, "Self submitting is not only an arbitration between advertiser and creator. It's also a choice between introvert creator and extrovert ones. And for some reason we do not accept easily the second kind." Good luck with your writing, I enjoyed the piece.I also suspect that people like me and that garage band can much more effectively market our own work virally, within niches we know better than anybody else, than an academic publishing house or record company could
-This is assuming that all artists are created equally in regards to their ability to self-promote. Trust me, they aren't and it's a problem because some of the most talented and deserving of attention are the most introverted. This is why the "middle-men" actually have some validity. Some people need a publicist, a manager etc to take care of that which is both foreign to the artist and often terrifying.