Heh, good point, Richard. I am a freelance editor on the side and a writer, but I still get an outsider to edit my books. It's an overlooked skill and one that will over time separate out the indie writer pool. In addition to releasing my own ebooks, I formed Haunted Computer Books to release other talented authors.
Indie ebook vs. NY? I am already doing that--my re-released The Red Church took me a few hours to format. It's outselling my current NY kindle book They Hunger by at least a 10 to one margin (at a third the price, which I think is directly related). I am making more per ebook at $1.99 than I did on paper copies in book club and paperback. As soon as more writers start seeing this, the publishing industry as we know it is dead.
Unfortunately, even now agents and authors are signing away tons of valuable digital rights on the lure of the sweet paper deal, even though paper books are usually off the shelf in nine months for hardcover, 90 days for most paperbacks below bestseller status. Yet the digital product stays "in print" for a lifetime. When many of these writers are in their old age and wishing they had some money, publishers will still be taking 85 percent of their digital income. Shop indie!
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