You were lucky enough to have parents who pushed through and made sacrifices. Not everyone is so lucky. That is exactly the point the article is making. You're blaming the children for having inadequate parents.
That's true, but they also are very selective and pay very little of the actual profits to the author. My project will help any author, even those with the standard publisher, but it's really aimed at finding the good writers from the flood of newly "published" authors on Amazon. There's so much noise due to the sheer number of self published authors it's really hard to find anything. It's like the Netflix problem, you spend all your spare time going through looking for something by the time you find it, you don't have free time anymore.
I would love to know more if you are planning to do something similar for mobile games. As a mobile games developer I know that something like this will resonate with a lot of mobile game developers
I hadn't really considered games (or even games and apps), but now that you bring it up, it seems like the perfect fit. I think it's certainly feasible to merge the two ideas into the same solution.
The purpose of a headline is to attract the reader's attention so yours is not better. But you already proved that yourself by clicking on on title and reading the article.
No one ever said it was a "solid island of plastic" except some uninformed members of the public. You're taking an urban legend to criticize a valid concern. That is like saying hackers can be stopped by banning ski masks because everyone knows a hacker is someone in a ski mask.
