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Originally Posted by Blossom
I've read some indies most have went on to be picked up by a mainstream publisher. I'm a big fan of first person narration and we have indies to thank for that changed.
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Some.
Not most.
And of those, some either keep on doing Indie releases as "hybrid" authors, or go right back to Indie-land as quickly as possible.
The math just doesn't work in tradpub's favor. Shortly before selling Harlequin off to HarperCollins, Torstar said in their last quarterly financial report that their decline in sales was due to competition from lower priced Indie titles. And Harlequin in its day used to be the low price leader in both print and digital for a variety (of unsavory) reasons.
Here, check this case study:
http://qz.com/711924/maverick-women-...n-the-process/