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Self-Published Sales Figures Don't Matter
Fact: It’s incredibly hard to sell a self-published book, especially self-published fiction. Opinion: this doesn’t matter.
There’s a post on Janet Reid’s blog today calling out writers who mention they’ve been published by AuthorHouse, iUniverse, etc. because this implies that they haven’t sold a lot of books. The point I make there in the comments section is that sales figures shouldn’t be the main determining factor in taking on a writer, but unfortunately it is. As I write about in this blog post, a self-published writer shouldn’t be judged on the ability to sell 5000 books via Lulu. The […]