Just a side note...
From B&N's press release..
src:
http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/pre...s_release.html
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Customer demand for great independent content continues to dramatically increase as 30% of NOOK customers purchase self-published content each month, representing 25% of NOOK Book sales every month.
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There is good reason to believe Amazon has similar numbers (though they do not report). Same with Apple, and others. Conservative estimates put self-pub at 25-30% of the overall market. That puts self-pub as a group on a par with the biggest of the big 5, Penguin.
Also, as of a new release today - Smashwords is the largest US producer of EBooks - and they ONLY do self pub.
Are there tons of self-pubs who will not make it? Sure. Are there tons of trad published authors that will not make it sure.. assuming you can even get in the door.
I guess the best take away is: There is no reason not to consider Self-pub today, unlike 5-10 years ago when self-pub was a blackhole that few emerged from. I have recently been told by a traditional publisher that your best bet to get into a trad contract is to prove yourself through self pub first. So even if trad pub is the route you want to go, you still probably should consider self pub.
