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Originally Posted by ProDigit
this is the basics of marketing (demand and offer)...
Authors are also people, with the majority of them being more salespeople than authors. If they see the market is too bad they just stop writing.
Only few 'true' authors continue despite; whether they get payed $20 per book,or $2 does not matter to them.
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Er, no. Most writers write as a sideline, and make their living doing other things. Many would
like to write full time, but the economics don't permit it. The first advice normally given to an aspiring author is "Don't give up your day job!"
One of the problems newer authors have is that they
need to be sales people, and usually aren't. Publishers reserve promotional dollars for established authors with potential best sellers. The intent is to let that author's following know a new book exists from the author. But first, the author has to
have that following.
Promotion for a new writer is largely on the writer. The publisher is unlikely to do much. They just throw it against the wall and see whether it sticks.
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It's not always up to the marketing guys to 'publish'... It's also depending on the people that write..
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Well, yes, the publisher
does have to have something to publish.
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And with more and more people opening the internet,more and more of these writers write small parts of their story on the internet, so that there's less and less need to read the book!
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Name an example. I can't think of any. Some authors do publish snippets as teasers, but I have yet to see one publish enough to remove the need to write the book.
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Dennis