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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda
Unfortunately, the fact that a book would not be profitable for a traditional publisher implies that it does not have a very large potential audience. Therefore, the chance I fall within that book's audience is relatively slight.
I'm far more interested in indie books that might have been quite profitable for a publishing company, but were published independently by the author because he or she wanted to retain a higher percentage of royalties.
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I understand where you are coming from, but the weakness is that most indy authors can not get a publisher to even look at them. The book might have been massively profitable, but they could not even get their foot in the door to get that recognition. In fact I hear over and over the advice that it is best to start out as indy, create a body of work and prove yourself first, and then head to the traditional model.
I been reading a lot of indy works lately and there are many that great quality, hiding in the piles of flotsam.