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Originally Posted by morriss003
My first book, "Surviving the Fog," did pretty well, and I even made a couple thousand dollars before Amazon discovered that it could be found for free at Smashwords. Since then, the book has been downloaded about 45,000 times as a free book, mostly to good reviews.
Since then, I have not had a lot of sales at all, and this is after publishing five more books. I think that one of the reasons is that there are so many more ebooks out there now. Surviving the Fog was published in 2009, and that was close to the beginning of the ebook revolution. I would suggest that new authors make their first book free so that they can get name recognition, but I'm not sure that has worked for me.
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You could not be more correct, it is like a double whammy to people that got in as early as you did.
Whammy 1) The depression has brought about tons of Amateur writers like myself. I had just written all that stuff as a means of clearing the cerebral cobwebs, tons of writing in college. Then boom, no work, economic collapse..."Hey! I could put my stuff on the net and make a buck." It will be another 6 monthish before people start dropping out like flies. It is extremely time consuming unless you hit it big with something for some reason or another
Whammy 2) The economic collapse is effecting the amount of money to go around. Sure there is definitely an eBook revolution happening...yeah..some would argue at the same time as the western world is on the brink of a social one.
You can go to my blog on wordpress under CalmApparatus and my latest post is about Amazons 4th quarter earning statement for last year including holiday sales, furthermore their expectations. The results were mixed...but...A) the consumer is not reflecting the supposed "recovery" and B) their earnings dropped like a rock
The point is, imagine what sales will be like when the real recovery happens, and it will (unless you're a doomer) for those who stick it out, keep getting product out there and expanding their library.
Cheers
p.s. sorry I dont really edit my e-mails/forum posts, yes I know I should lol