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The garbage is still there, it hasn't gone away. It's very good to know that good books can escape the volcano in significant numbers, but that doesn't mean it's not there. The best thing about today's self-publishing world is in fact that there is room for everything. Good, bad, experimental, anything a person writes can be published and potentially find an audience. Yes, the good stuff's there, and in quantity, but the bad stuff is too. It just isn't selling. |
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There's nothing there to suggest that self-publishing will make your manuscript all these things, there's nothing there to suggest that the figures offer any way to predict manuscripts that will be all these things. There is only the suggestion that if it does turn out to be a stellar performer then self-publishing still gives a better financial result. I am really not sure where and how you are reading anything else from the text - because in context the meaning seems pretty clear to me. |
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That's the root of the problem. He says the figures suggest that, but they don't. The figures show that if you achieve a certain sales volume on Kindle, you will make more money in royalties by self-publishing than through a commercial publisher. Unfortunately, that achievement depends on more factors than the quality of the manuscript alone. We're both getting the same meaning from the words. The real disagreement is in what the numbers mean, not the words. |
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Expanded report is up... 54,000 titles this time...
http://authorearnings.com/reports/the-50k-report/ Server will probably melt under load as this news gets out... so good luck. |
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Thanks, got it loaded.
First glance, I haven't dug through it in detail, but It's good to see that his summary this time is limited to information that can be extracted from the data. I don't know that I'm entirely convinced of all his extrapolations of unit and dollar share, but I do think his numbers are good enough to justify the argument that self-published books make up a major portion of Kindle market share at the very least. |
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And the numbers still don't justify his assertions. It's that simple.
His numbers say one thing, his words say another, and that's the problem. |
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But surely that's only true if you insist that "stellar" has to mean "high quality" rather than it's commonly understood association with performance. If you read his paragraphs about "isnt' good", "merely average" and "great" work as simply being about an author's expectations when planning to publish (which is what makes sense in the context of this report, you can only choose your publishing path from your expectations or hope for a manuscript), then the words do correspond to the numbers - in fact the numbers led directly to these words when you accept them in the context of the report.
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The next report is going to be juicy: their spider has been crawling Nook.
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What I think is really interesting is the low number of authors making a living at their books. That shows the problem of making a decent living solely through writing still hasn't changed.
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Todays chapter of AS THE PUBLISHING WORLD CHURNS comes courtesy of Publisher's Weekly and Mark Coker:
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The problem with using "volcano of crap" to describe self-published books is that it is really hard to avoid the bad stuff that spews from a volcano, while it is quite easy to avoid the bad stuff that comes from self-published books. If Mount Vesuvius spewed forth some diamonds in addition to all that ash, it would be a monumental task to find those diamonds. If I had to randomly search through self-published to find the good ones, it would indeed be analogous to a volcano.
But I don't search for books randomly. The same techniques that I use to select traditionally published books work for selecting self-published books work: word of mouth, reviews, etc. If you never notice the ash and lava, is there really a volcano? |
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Could be a hellmouth. Is there a sulfur smell?
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