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No One Buys Books
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Writing a book won’t make you rich. For non fiction authors writing for business - a book should be a bridge, between your words….and your work in the world. Offering an end experience - an opportunity for your ideal audience or quintessential client to immerse themselves more deeply in your work in the world - this is really the only monetization strategy most authors and entrepreneurs ought to care about in 2024 - and beyond.
Be the Monkey - Ebooks and Self-Publishing: A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath
amazon.com
It’s one thing to imagine people going for this new model of self-publishing (free or low cost, immediate, built-in access to a large market of readers, royalty upside) versus the vanity publishing model of yore (pseudo-hardcover, obscenely expensive, slow turnaround, and then author’s burden of marketing and sales, not to mention the requirement o
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Books matter. Making them is a combination of craft and insight. Publishing them is a generous act of faith. Adding to the corpus of shared knowledge is important. Books change the culture when people act on them, even if they don’t sell many copies. And sometimes the backlist surprises the accountants.
But the economics of new books have nothing to... See more
But the economics of new books have nothing to... See more
Books don’t sell
Andreas Vlach and added
On the digital side, for the last three or four years at least, Amazon’s e-book sales growth has been almost entirely driven by lower-cost titles from self-published ‘indie’ authors, digital-first presses, and Amazon’s own in-house publishing imprints. The more established publishers have seen very little of that e-book growth; the industry’s large
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