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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
OMG, give this guy a Nobel or something. Steve, I understand your frustration, but I think Lemurion is right. Your issue isn't how good your stuff is, or piracy, or anything even remotely like that. Your problem is lack of exposure. Yes, I realize that you're doing the digital only thing. That's fine, as I'm doing digital marketing as well. However, you need to get out to these big cons and show yourself off, including your books, your skills, get to know your fans, meet people and make new fans, etc.
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His problem might well be that he doesn't have fans.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Yes, again, I know you're an all digital guy, but ~70% of the book buying public is still into dead tree novels. Why do you think I invest so much energy into printing and distributing them? Because they sell, and they sell in considerable numbers. Right now I'd say that my print book sales outnumber my digital sales 100 to 1, and not because I haven't been doing digital marketing and stuff. It's because only about 1 in every 100 people I encounter actually want digital copies. The rest want physical paperbacks.
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70%?? I would rather think it's more in the neighbourhood of 95% that still buys pbooks only. And of the remaining 5% some also buy pbooks. The people that are ebook only are a tiny minority. That looks more in line with your 1:100.
Now getting a publisher interested in producing a print run may not be easy. But if he wants to do it all himself he could start with POD, for example at lulu.