Saturday, August 07, 2010
Who Needs A Publisher?
A neat article from Newsweek on people who are self-publishing on Kindle and making it work. One guy, who had been turned down by every possible print publisher, ended up selling 4,000 books a week on Kindle and was picked up by Simon and Schuster. Another guy is making $100,000 a year. By eliminating the publisher, he can sell books for $2.99 and make a profit.
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I know JA. he's a hoot and a half - and knows what he's talking about. He works at it hard.
Still, these accounts are of the outliers, the exceptions. "Your experience may vary" as the saying goes.
I never trust these examples, they may be 100% true, but they still paint an extremely inaccurate picture of the reality of most self-pubbers' experiences.
In a Con game, they'd call these people The Ropers. They're the ones who bring in the Marks.
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