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Originally Posted by Rizla
The trouble is, those books will be rushed and of poor quality.
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For some, probably. On the other hand, there are plenty of published authors who put out 2-3 books a year (sometimes in different genres or under different pseudonyms) and not all of them suck.
Depends entirely on the author (and their team, if applicable); some are fast and good writers, other take a decade to write a book and it's still of poor quality.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Hopefully things will improve as ebook penetration improves. /---/ If your ebookstores are still in the thrall of the traditional gatekeepers any indie push will likely be aimed at external sales. (I vaguely remember seeing a comment somewhere from an estonian indie author who was doing good business in english on Amazon.)
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I hope things will change, yes - although at least for those authors who write in Estonian, going through a publisher is probably still a better option at the moment. I've got the impression that if your manuscript is any good at all (and has any hope to sell at all), it'll be picked up by a publisher - not many of them want to focus entirely on translations.
If you have that option at all (depending on both your genre and on whether you can write well enough in English and have access to native speakers for beta readers and editors), targeting readers in English is obviously a better bet - not necessarily easier to break through, but market sizes are so different that it might be worth it (and very much worth it).