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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Well, agents reject 90% of submissions.
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It is all about numbers.
I gather from the OP article that the greater the number (starting from the most popular) of books drawn into the sample, the worse for indies, and the better for commercially published.
I agree with Howey that taking every book on Amazon.com into the sample would be unfair to the indie world. But the number of titles he picks (the top-selling 7,000 for some analyses, top 50,000 for others) is necessarily arbitrary. And note why it would be unfair to compare the income from the average indie book with that from the average big publisher book. It's because commercial and university publishers do actually publish better-than-average books.
Howey's argument that going indie maximizes genre authors income isn't bulletproof, but he does present real evidence. But from a reader standpoint, he didn't help the indie cause.