Quote:
Originally Posted by SigilBear
I just made up a big number. 2 million, 6 billion, a trillion - we'll get there soon enough.
|
I want to respond to this.
You say you have self-published a book before. I am going to assume you mean a paper as opposed to an ebook. I am making this assumption on the basis of your numbers are not making any sense.
Now you may be the world's greatest website designer. Heck you may look up general topics every day and be the world's expert on very general things. But when it comes to ebooks, it looks like you have not done any research. You just pulled numbers out of a hat as opposed to taking 2 seconds to actually see how many ebooks there were on a topic.
Real data is always a help. Or at least data based on a known.
Now your 430,000 is probably close to accurate in one sense. I figure only the top 430,000 ebooks make any kind of money.
The other roughly 90% make pennies or nothing. Keep in mind all the free public domain books and some price matched books.
Your 430,000 may have looked large to you. 10% of anything is not a large number.
It is all in context.
Rather like $1000 is probably big money to us. But to Jeff, Bill, Donald and assorted others, that would be pocket change.