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Originally Posted by darryl
The single best thing you can do to bolster the income of most authors is to persuade them to dump their agents, leave traditional publishing and enjoy 70% royalties with KDP. Or, if they really like tradpub type contracts, go with an Amazon imprint.
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There is a reason that most name authors don't go that route. It's hard to attract a big enough audience selling just ebooks (paper books for indies tend to cost hardback prices, gee a bit of a double standard there), it's just a much smaller pie than selling to people who buy paper books. Yea, there are indies who make a good living being an indie. Most do not. It's not a coincidence that there are quite a few authors who start as indies and move to traditional publishing.
Successful indie writers are a lot closer to the old pulp writers than anything else, i.e. they churn out a lot of stuff every year. Frankly, I can't think of very many indies who are successful writing one or two books a year. The ones I can think of tend to use smaller publishers rather than go the pure indie route. Not every author is suited to that.