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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
How do you lay off a self-published writer?
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You can't. In fact, the only thing that the market can do is post sales so disappointing the writer gives up, at which point the writer may or may not be laboring solely out of love or some sort of hypergraphia.
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Statistically, from the point of view of the publishers one in 10 people buying 10 books is the same as each of the 10 buying one book. From the point of view of the author one in 10 people buying 10 books can mean at best one sale per title, while each of the 10 people buying one book can mean at best 10 sales per title.
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From the point of view of the publisher, though, each title represents a certain amount of sunk costs. So selling 10 books of the same title represents a much greater profit than 1 sale of each of 10 titles. The effect is magnified for the author, though, as (perhaps) 9 of those 10 titles sales don't feed the author's revenue stream at all.