How a direct audience changes historical publishing

Traditional historians often depend on publishers, bookshops, and familiar commercial subjects to reach readers. YouTube and Patreon provide direct research support and a means of explaining contentious ideas, reducing dependence on those incentives. That reach also creates a responsibility: an author criticized on a large channel may lack an equal right of reply, so hostile book reviews are avoided. A direct audience makes it possible to publish on the interwar navy as a subject in its own right without wrapping every project in a World War I or World War II sales frame.