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Originally Posted by crossi
Indie publishing is just as viable a route to success as commercial publishing, but it entails more work for the author, and a smaller proportion of indie books reach the minimum level of success that can be expected from a commercially published book.
How would you calculate the number who reach a minimum level of sucess in trad publishing? Do you count only the authors whose books are accepted and published or all those authors who try to get a trad publisher to take their book? Since most authors never get in the door for them them there is no sucess at all not even minimum. Since lately I've been hearing that the trads are shunning new authors in favor of known ones more and more the odds against new authors going the trad route are getting worse.
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The minimum level of success in commercial publishing is acceptance and publication, anything less isn't success.
The difficulty of getting commercially published is one of the reasons there is no one route that fits all authors. It's much harder to get published commercially, but if you do get past that hurdle, you will make more than the majority of self-published authors even if not a single reader ever buys a copy of your book.
Both options have their advantages and disadvantages.