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Originally Posted by Genaro Zamora
living off what you love to do, to me, is being rich.
it's cool to see how some people have made it in the ebook publishing
world.
I'm just happy to see that the indie publishing ebook world can reach millions of people now, compared to ten years ago. It opens great oportunities in sharing ones art!
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A great philosophy of life.
The question I think is which came first: success in ebooks or success in pbooks? Konrath, one of the "successful" authors cited earlier as an example built his reputation in pbooks.
Yes there are great opportunities now, but only if you rise above the crowd and I think that is becoming increasingly difficult as fewer self-published authors who want to rise simply just sit at their computer, put the words on screen, and press Publish to Internet.
This discussion has been had many times before but the one thing that has never been satisfactorily answered is: What mechanical steps does the successful self-published author take to help ensure that his/her product has the opportunity to be successful?
I know, for example, that several authors here on MR have disdained the use of professional copyeditors. But what I don't know is how many of these authors are "successful", how many first built their reputations via traditional publishing were copyediting is often provided, and whether the books that these authors have produced sans professional services are successful in their own right.
Opportunity is not enough to make one successful.