And if I had suggested you should know about him because he is a top seller, then maybe I could understand what you are trying to say.
Instead, I was implying that as the poster boy for indie publishing, I am surprised you haven't heard of him -- since you can often be found in threads like, um this one?
Threads discussing the state of publishing and self-publishing rarely include romance rankings -- but Howey and Konrath get quoted as gospel.
One would almost think you had no interest in or knowledge of the self-publishing industry
Correct -- the top-selling tradpub authors would be the ones who sell in every airport newsstand, to people who don't usually read, and everywhere else on the planet. No indie will ever make as many sales (or money) as the James Patterson Collective, for example.
Comparing a fairly successful high-end midlister genre author to a fairly successful high-end indie genre author seems fair enough to me, no one except you has implied that anyone thinks indies are expected to reach that one-in-a-million author whose books
personally get handed out for causal gifts at the same rate as gift cards.
The vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of tradpub authors don't make it there either.
I could go on for longer, but there is only so many times you can type the word "vast" before getting sick and tired of it.