so cool...

[davezary]

I posted recently over on sister community bookshare about how I was able to get my e-book downloaded a little more than 114,000 times since I published it earlier this year

Comments

[davezary]

My style of writing is not for everyone, nor do I aim to please everyone. I don't claim to be a literary fiction author.

[silverflight8]

...I am pretty sure winterfox meant the 'even though it was' part. The lying bit, I mean.

[ralphieinrigor]

He's now edited that part out of the original post.

[lady_leia_solo]

I really think Kindle, Nook, etc will put the majority of book publishers -- as we know them today, anyway -- out of business within the next 3-5 years. Think what happened to Blockbuster after Netflix took off.

I really don't think that would happen honestly. E-books are major force in the industry, but regular books still bring bank. I think more book pubishers are looking into e-books as supplementary to the traditional route.

[davezary]

Agree that regular books still bring in a tremendous amount of cash, but that was the case with blockbuster/rentals for a long time also. Netflix streaming/on-demand was the final nail in the coffin.

[hooton]

but that was the case with blockbuster/rentals for a long time also. Netflix streaming/on-demand was the final nail in the coffin.

You're comparing apples and oranges.

Netflix streaming and on-demand film download sites don't sell their own content, they're making available the same content that Blockbuster sold but without the added car journey. The Hollywood studios still make their money from their content no matter how it's distributed. What's interesting is that Netflix et al have not led to a rise in home-movie makers putting their content on line for free/fee - which is what self-publishing is.

Do Not Want

[inverarity]

Would be curious to hear what other authors think.

I think you've swallowed the Self-Publishing Kool-Aid being splashed all over writer's forums everywhere. Everyone is screaming "Amanda Hocking!" and ignoring the fact that 99% of self-pubbed ebooks sell in the single digits -- for good reason.

Also, you're a spamming douchebag and this comm isn't for masturbatory jerk-offs to promote their self-published crap.

I even checked out the free sample of your book, just so I could confirm that you do in fact suck abysmally as a writer.

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was the bearded father of statistical thermodynamic theory, an outrageously early founder of quantum mechanics, and also a loud supporter of atomic theory. He wanted everyone else to believe what he already knew -- that atoms were the building blocks. They were everything, and this was abundantly fucking obvious to him.

So, from this Edward Bulwer-Lytton-worthy beginning, we move quickly to a two-page description of the last porno you jerked off to a blow job, a rape fantasy,

Re: Do Not Want

[koshkabegemot]

It's as bad as you think, seriously. I wrote better smut when I was twelve.

Re: Do Not Want

[davezary]

rape fantasy? wtf are you talking about

If your work is good and people enjoy reading it, there is no "push-back" against a $9.99 price point. "Pro author" (whatever that means) or not. The numbers speak for themselves here. I happily pay $10.50 to see a movie in theaters that I think I may be entertained by, and a movie lasts less than your typical novel or novella.

Would you speak to someone like this in person?

[runsamrun]

Oh god, this is so bad.

[reikah]

I hate this piece of miserable writing like it just killed my father and must prepare to die. What is this?

[katiechainsaw]

WTF? This is bad!

[hooton]

Ebooks won't put commercial publishing out of business because commercial publishing remains:

- the most effective way of getting books and authors to the public's attention; and

- the most effective means of quality control for the book buying public; and

- there are always going to be more authors who want to be paid up front for their work then pay out and take the risk of not earning it back.

It's early days for the ebook market, which is why it's been growing so steadily. At some point it will plateau.

[davezary]

True, the advance will remain a big draw for the traditional model -- I think that could be a big part in the future, an e-book publisher could look at your prior verified sales numbers and 'automatically' offer an advance based on that to get you to use their platform instead of a competitor's.

Quality control and distribution are both valid points.

[hooton]

Commercial publishers have always looked at good self-publishing sales figures and offered contracts to authors who they think they can sell. If you check out absolutewrite.com you'll see that this has been discussed there numerous times

"Ebooks" != "Self-Published"

[inverarity]

More importantly, ebooks won't put commercial publishing out of business because commercial publishing includes ebooks. Commercial publishers are moving into epublishing in a big way.