The highest-earning self-publishers take 24% more time per word
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The highest-earning self-publishing authors write 31% more words per day than their less successful self-published colleagues, but they spend 62% more time doing it. This translates to spending 24% more time per word. — data from the Taleist Self-Publishing Survey
Just some of the data from one of the chapters in the Taleist Self-Publishing Survey
This is just one of the fascinating insights that has come out as Dave Cornford and I work our way through the data collected in the Taleist Self-Publishing Survey.
As you can see, we're drawing on the answers to multiple questions in the survey to pull out "stories" from the data 1,007 authors gave us.
The survey comprised 61 questions. If we were just going to give you the straight answers to each question, we could have hit "print" almost immediately and sent you raw data, like an online poll. But we're not going to do that.
We didn't, for instance, ask authors how long they spend writing each word to come up with the data above. That insight came from looking at separate answers in the survey relating to:
Royalties data
Words written per day information
How much time authors spend writing
And splitting looking at the difference between the answers from authors earning in the top 10% and those who weren't.
The cards spread over Dave's kitchen table in the picture above represent just some of the data that will go into one of the chapters of the report — in this case the one about what top-earning self-publishing authors have in common.
Having sat down for several half-day sessions now, we've got a clearer idea of how long it's going to take to decide what stories we're going to flesh out and how we need to interrogate the data.
Putting all that together has allowed us to do decide to aim for publication at the end of May. I can promise you that it'll have been worth the wait!
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