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Originally Posted by NickSpalding
Indie publishing is fantastic if you just want to sell a few hundred, maybe thousand copies, get your book read by like minded individuals and receive constructive criticism.
Become a top selling author in the tens or hundreds of thousands and make a living doing it? .....er, not so much  |
I'm not sure that it's any *harder* to become a top-selling author now, than it was 15 years ago. Indie publishing & ebooks don't seem to make it notably easier, but despite the huge avalanche of literary dreck that's swamping the internet, it also doesn't seem that *good* indie authors are having a rougher time breaking into mainstream publishing than they used to.
(So, yeah... if becoming a Big Name Author appeals to you, keep submitting to big publishing houses. Current trends indicate they *do* pay attention to authors who are making a living selling books without them, and consider that a sign of marketability rather than a sign of troublesome rebel attitude.)