This post will cover three assumptions/pieces of conjecture – Sooner or later authors chosen by readers will outsell authors chosen by Publishers. To the tune of indie authors and new publisher authors having 75 or more out of the Top 100 books in the Kindle Store (currently it’s around 25). The corollary will be that 50 or more of [...]
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First, let’s consider how things have changed: Old World of Publishing: $10 to $15 books. Author got 10% to 15% of the money. Rest went to middlemen. Publishers had all the power and readers and authors were held hostage. New World of Publishing: Books from $1 to $15. Author gets 35% to 70% of the [...]
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We get news today that eBooks outsold paperbacks in February 2011 – thus becoming the most popular book format in the US. The main article is at the website of The Association of American Publishers (aka Dead Men Walking Inc.). Found courtesy Electronista and Techmeme. There are a lot of interesting facts – February ebook sales were [...]
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