The Dangers of Being Indie

The ever-wonderful Jan Oda has an excellent post up at ErgoFiction that describes the conundrum for indie writers in this day and age (by which I mean the middle of 2010).  Eli grabbed this same quote for Novelr, but it's because it's so absolutely true.  I want to start off with it:

If you browse around webfiction stories you'll see the same tricks and ideas almost everywhere. Donation buttons, incentives ranging from becoming a fan on Facebook to tweeting about the story and so on. If...