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Originally Posted by Lazybones
To greatly oversimplify: the old model is one where you have 100 authors who can sell 100,000 copies each. Getting into the pool of authors is hard but once there you're more likely to do well.
The new model is one where you can have 10,000 authors who can sell maybe 1,000 copies each. Getting into the pool of authors is relatively easy, but it's harder to sell a lot of copies.
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Except all signs point to the new model being 10,000 authors who can sell 10,000 copies each, and a handful of them can sell 100,000 copies.
Ebook sales aren't showing themselves to be limited to the dollars people used to spend on print. With the convenience of click-and-download purchases, they're easy to justify as an impulse buy. Those authors who sell ebooks for the price of a double latte have discovered that they can indeed sell books in numbers comparable to double lattes. Those who're stuck with prices comparable to a concert t-shirt are discovering that people buy them as often as they buy concert tees: maybe a few times a year, more if they're feeling flush.