Thread: This is how much a writer makes with a traditional publishing house
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Old 02-12-2010, 06:07 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by DD1509 View Post
I self-published a technical eBook in 2003 and I sold it myself one-at-a-time on the web to a very small niche market. To date it has sold about 4k copies with about $88k in revenue. Of course in this model I kept almost all of that revenue with a small amount of marketing/selling costs. No returns, no inventory, no printing, no agent, no publisher and did it without an editor. I did a lot of personal selling using various methods over the years but it is an indicator that self-publishing definately has its place in the growth of the eBook.

I easily netted $20 per sale. Of course, the fiction market is a different animal but eBooks and self-pub will change the entire industry as we know it today.
If someone tried to sell you a novel for $20, would you call them mad? I would.

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Ryan
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