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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yes, I know. A good friend of mine is an indie writer. I got to listen to a year's worth of the process of writing the book, figuring out how to hire a cover artist (note, he thinks that one of the people he interviewed to do the cover work and didn't get the job retaliated by panning his book in the review), hiring the editor, the process of working with the editor, etc..., so yes I do know what is involved and that most indie writers hire someone else to do those pieces. There are, of course, some pretty big issues with hiring an editor.
As far as your math, I suspect the error is in the assumed numbers you are using, rather than the mechanics. Not very many indies pulling in $4 M. Not very many traditional publisher authors pulling in that much either. The major fallacy is that going indie doesn't effect the sales numbers.
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I remember your friend.
Oh and on the advances unless your name is "I can make the publisher a ton of money", that book has to be almost finished before they get the advance.
You say that advance sounds better. Maybe. Let's see, I can go with big publisher and get 10-25% of the profits my book makes with the publisher doing the accounting or I can go with Amazon and make roughly 69% of my total sales. I don't want to give someone 50% of my hard work.