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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
You know - - it's funny that you bring that last statement up. I was just looking on Ridan Publishing's webpage the other night. Apparently they had a book sell 1,000 copies last month. Now THAT's a marketing machine and speaks to the character and quality of their work as an indie.
FWIW: The Crown Conspiracy is published by them and has been mentioned in the same breath as works by Joe Abercrombie and Patrick Rothfuss (as being comparable in quality!)
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I don't think we should be surprised any longer. I mean, the difference is negligible most of the time between what we get from the 'majors' and what we now receive from the 'indies'. Ridan is a good example, there is little (apart from a marketing budget) that separates their list from Tor's or any other publisher. That 1,000 will be 2,000 before long, and then 10,000 and more as ebooks become more accepted as a first choice rather than a poor choice (they've already jumped ahead since last year). The future is very bright for a lot of authors
