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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Speaking of mindshare: any activity on the indie publishing front in Estonia? One advantage of indie ebooks is the higher author margins that allow them to make a living off lower prices and low volumes.
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I honestly don't know. There are some, I believe, who do basically indie print books, but .. ebooks, no. Something like 80% of ebooks that sell in any reasonable quantity at all ("reasonable quantity" meaning "50 copies a year or more") are translations of foreign fiction; I'm not sure that local fiction would really sell well as its primary target group - probably more slanted towards older and countryside people - hasn't really embraced e-reading as far as I can tell, probably not the least because they're basically 100% library users.
Eventually, it might start making sense. As it is, if you can hope to sell a maximum of 100 copies a year as an unknown without physical bookshop and library presence, you're not going to make a living of it even if you managed to write 2-3 books a year.
I only found data on the books published by publishing houses (members of the publishers' association), so I can't say for certain that this applies, of course. But I haven't spotted any obviously self-published titles whenever I'm browsing our bookshops' new ebooks lists to see if there's anything there my mother would like to read.