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Originally Posted by darryl
Topical post on The Passive Voice.
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/08/20...re-title-2015/
It mostly speaks for itself, but one relevant excerpt from John Scalzi is this:
At this time, and I expect still for a while to come, the best way to address all these markets effectively and consistently is to partner with publishers.
Also, look at the figures for Audiobooks! |
Nice link, thanks!
Wow, roughly half of his sales are audiobooks? Fascinating, I would never have expect that. I've actually got both the audiobook and the ebook. Some of that might be having Wil Wheaton as the narrator. Great to have real data to look at rather than wild internet assertions and speculation. It's not unusual for me to buy both the ebook and audiobook formats of books that I like. Perhaps I missed it, but it would be interesting to know what the foreign sales figures are. It might be too early for Lock In. I'll have to think about all this.
As for Hugh Howey, first can't say that I've ever heard of him, but glad to hear that he thinks he's as big name author as John Scalzi.
I also note that Scalzi didn't say a word about how much money he made, just how many books he sold as ebooks, hardbacks and audiobooks. Howey simply asserted that he was making 4x what Scalzi makes based on the fact that he's put out twice the number of books that Scalzi did during the same time period. It's impossible to say what Scalzi actually made without knowing what his contracts were.