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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I do think hybrid authors are an important part of the mix, and shouldn't be discounted the way they are by any "either-or" studies. In my opinion, the group that can most easily benefit from a hybrid approach are those who've built an audience through commercial publication, and then go for self-publishing.
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Correct.
And that is the dirty secret the traditionalists want to obscure: more and more veterans with print catalogs are supplementing their print income with indie releases and finding they make more money off the indie releases. There are say more tradpub authors going hybrid or, if they can get their rights reverted, full indie, than indie authors going hybrid of full trad.
Another often neglected fact is that since more tradpubs won't release more than one or two titles a year per author, prolific trad authors need pen names or contracts with multiple authors. The modern answer is to indie-pub on the side. Which is why so many trad-pub contracts now have non-compete clauses. Which, of course, drives more authors to go all-indie.